The concept of ‘wellbeing economy’ (WE), that is, an economy that pursues human and ecological wellbeing instead of material growth, is gaining support amongst policymakers, business, and civil society. Over the past couple of years, several national governments have adopted the WE as their guiding framework to design development policies and assess social and economic progress. While it shares a number of basic principles with various post-growth conceptualisations, the WE's language and concepts tend to be more adaptable to different social and economic contexts, thus penetrating into policy processes and connecting to a variety of cultural traits, not only in advanced economies but also in less industrialised nations. In this paper, we describe the key features of the WE, including its approach to key concepts like work, productivity and technology and several examples of its policy impact. We conclude by positing that the WE framework may be one of the most effective bases to mainstream post-growth policies at the national and global level.

“福祉经济”（WE）的概念，即追求人类和生态福祉而非物质增长的经济，正在获得政策制定者、企业和公民社会的支持。在过去几年中，一些国家政府已采用 WE 作为其设计发展政策和评估社会和经济进步的指导框架。虽然它与各种后增长概念共享一些基本原则，但 WE 的语言和概念往往更能适应不同的社会和经济背景，从而渗透到政策过程中并与各种文化特征联系起来，不仅在高级经济，但在工业化程度较低的国家也是如此。在本文中，我们描述了 WE 的主要特征，包括它对关键概念（如工作、生产力和技术及其政策影响的几个例子。最后，我们假设 WE 框架可能是在国家和全球层面将后增长政策主流化的最有效基础之一。