Contributions of Subjective Well-Being and Good Living to the Contemporary Development of the Notion of Sustainable Human Development

Romel Ramón González-Díaz, Ángel Acevedo-Duque, Guido Salazar-Sepúlveda and Dante Castillo
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Romel Ramón González-Díaz: Centro Internacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (CIID), Monteria 230001, Colombia
Ángel Acevedo-Duque: Faculty of Business and Administration, Public Policy Observatory, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Santiago 7500912, Chile
Guido Salazar-Sepúlveda: Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción 4090541, Chile
Dante Castillo: Faculty of Humanities, Psychology School, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago 9170020, Chile

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 6, 1-17

Abstract: The article analyzes the contributions of the notions of Good Living attributable to epistemologies, traditions, and subjective well-being at work, given the current changes in the working context, to enrich the concept of human development. The article is developed with an analytical-descriptive and synthetic approach, reconstructing the concept of Good Living through a theoretical-economic, ontological, and epistemological comparison and its dimensional axes. Methodologically, a systematic review of human development literature is used in Latin America through the Web of Science (WOS), comparing the UNDP Technical Notes (HDI) with the various approaches to Good Living published between 2010 and 2020. These documents were subjected to semantic contrast, with reference to the various dimensions and positions of human development as a generator of subjective well-being for the configuration of public labor policies. The main findings refer to the disagreement points evidenced in the two-axes dimensions of the Good Living measurement systems (mobility and safety, and cultural satisfaction within territories), an important factor being the sumak kawsay, the concept of Good Living. Sumak is fullness, the sublime, excellent, magnificent, beautiful, superior. Kawsay is life, being. However, it is dynamic, changing, and is not a passive question, and is thus not considered by the different evolutionary changes of the HDI.

Keywords: sumak kawsay; Good Living; gainful employment; subjective well-being; qualitative data analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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