"object of policy" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to the intended purpose something is meant to accomplish or the intended outcome of a policy. For example, "The object of this policy is to ensure the safety of all students on campus."
Whatever reason or justification is given for the outsourcing or selling of public services, the object of policy is to find outlets for surplus capital and deliver a return to investors, and in that sense privatisation has been a bonanza for thousands of corporations around the world.
But a major motivation for thinking happiness the wrong object of policy is that neither happiness nor well-being are the appropriate focus of a theory of justice.
A related sort of objection to happiness-based policy argues that happiness, or even well-being, is simply the wrong object of policy, which ought instead to focus on the promotion of resources or capabilities (Rawls 1971, Nussbaum 2000, Sen 2009).
"Children are the object of policy and those investments determine the nature of future society," said Professor Stiglitz.
He just can't connect with the objects of policy.
From an aggregate perspective, the economy's investment rate, its international balance and other key features are likewise proper objects of policy concern.
So the object of social policy should be "to keep the entire community intermarriageable".
The object of the policy introduced in 2009 is to encourage greater organisational focus on specific serious safety issues.
The stories of people being circulated from benefits into low-grade, temporary work and back to benefits again rather defeats the object of the policy.
A spokesman for the GMB union said: "If the main object of government policy is to bring the prison population into the workforce instead of rehabilitation, we would be strongly against it.
The new consensus was that state intervention should be limited to (the rare) occasions when markets failed, that the prime object of economic policy was control of inflation rather than full employment, and that universal benefits should be means tested.
