关键词: 福利, 主观福利, 客观福利, 国民福利核算

Abstract: To establish the framework of national welfare accounting involves a scientific way of defining welfare concepts. Chinese welfare concept originates from two different academic terms in the west: well-being and welfare, which results in confusion when we do research in this area. This paper first makes clearer the concept by classifying it into subjective well-being and objective welfare. Then it proceeds to prove it is objective welfare, rather than subjective well-being, that lays the fundamental basis for national welfare accounting. Finally this paper makes a proposition with reasoning that national economic welfare is a harmonious unity of national production and natural environment.

Key words: Welfare, Subjective well-being, Objective welfare, National welfare accounting