The pursuit of happiness : an economy of well-being / / Carol Graham.

"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 fa...

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Superior document:A Brookings focus book
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Brookings focus books.
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Physical Description:xi, 164 p. :; ill.
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Table of 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?.