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In my view...intrinsically, happiness is the only thing that is of value.

— Yew-Kwang Ng

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With adequate safeguards and cautious preparation, genetic engineering could be used to relieve suffering and increase happiness by quantum leaps.

I myself regard enjoyment and suffering (defined more broadly to include milder pain and discomfort) as not only the most important, but ultimately the only important things.

But even now...throughout the world we still hold many such traditional beliefs which are similarly detrimental to happiness!

Then that means that helping the world to survive — to overcome say the climate change crisis — in my view this is the most important area in economics.

It is conceivable that, perhaps several hundred (or a thousand) years from now, neurology may have advanced to the stage where the level of happiness can be accurately correlated to some cerebral reaction that can be measured by a ‘eudaimonometer’.

Welfare Economics: Towards a More Complete Analysis (2004)

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