The pursuit of happiness [electronic resource] : an economy of well-being / Carol Graham.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: BookBookSeries: Brookings focus booksPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2011.Description: xi, 164 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 330.01/9 23
LOC classification:
  • HB74.P8 G733 2011eb
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Contents:
Happiness : a new science -- What we mean by happiness : a "theory" of agency and well-being -- Happiness around the world : what we know -- Adaptation and other puzzles -- GNH versus GNP?.
Summary: "Focuses on the role in the policymaking process of new metrics for measuring the effects on individual well-being of institutional, macroeconomic, and policy environments--for example, the effects of macroeconomic uncertainty and lack of access to health insurance--as well as the effects of factors such as commuting time, divorce, job status, and obesity"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Happiness : a new science -- What we mean by happiness : a "theory" of agency and well-being -- Happiness around the world : what we know -- Adaptation and other puzzles -- GNH versus GNP?.

"Focuses on the role in the policymaking process of new metrics for measuring the effects on individual well-being of institutional, macroeconomic, and policy environments--for example, the effects of macroeconomic uncertainty and lack of access to health insurance--as well as the effects of factors such as commuting time, divorce, job status, and obesity"--Provided by publisher.

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