Happiness, economics and politics : towards a multi-disciplinary approach /
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| Imprint: | Cheltenham, Glos, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2009. |
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| Description: | ix, 362 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7977512 |
Table of Contents:
- The history of happiness and contemporary happiness studies / Darrin M. McMahon
- On the measurement and mismeasurement of happinesss: contemporary theories and methodological directions / Anthony D. Ong
- How do we assess how happy we are? Tenets, implications and tenability of three theories / Ruut Veenhoven
- Happiness and domain satisfaction: new directions for the economics of happiness / Richard A. Easterlin and Onnicha Sawangfa
- Happiness when temptation overwhelms willpower / Alois Stutzer
- Happiness and the relative consumption hypothesis / Amitava Krishna Dutt
- The Easterlin Paradox revisited / Robert H. Frank
- Does inequality matter to individual welfare? An initial exploration based on happiness surveys from Latin America / Carol Graham and Andrew Felton
- Perceptions of discrimination, effort to obtain psychological balance and relative wages: can we infer a happiness gradient? / Arthur Goldsmith
- Politics and happiness: an empirical ledger / Alexander C. Pacek
- Democracy and happiness: what causes what? / Ronald Inglehart
- The causal link between happiness and democratic welfare regimes / Charlotte Ridge, Tom Rice and Matthew Cherry
- Labor organization and the quality of life in the American states / Suzanne M. Coshow and Benjamin Radcliff
- Should national happiness be maximized? / Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer
- Change your actions, not your circumstances: an experimental test of the Sustainable Happiness Model / Kennon M. Sheldon and Sonja Lyubmirsky
- What is to be done? Toward a 'happier' world / Amitava Krishna Dutt and Benjamin Radcliff.
