Grant RobertsonThe Treasury will today take another step down its ``wellbeing economics'' track. Broadening the framework of our long-term thinking requires a multi-disciplinary approach to economic, social and environmental policies.'' It will include a section on its aim to put the nation's natural, social and human capital alongside the government's financial/physical capital. In fact, wellbeing economics meshes with English's ``social investment'', aimed at measurable positive outcomes for those thought most in need. Wellbeing economics fits comfortably into Robertson and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's thinking and enables them to pick up and widen social investment.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 19, 2018 16:07 UTC