The Politics of Happiness : : What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being / / Derek Bok.
During the past forty years, thousands of studies have been carried out on the subject of happiness. Some have explored the levels of happiness or dissatisfaction associated with typical daily activities, such as working, seeing friends, or doing household chores. Others have tried to determine the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 6 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. What Investigators Have Discovered
- 2. The Reliability of Research on Happiness
- 3. Should Policy-Makers Use Happiness Research?
- 4. The Question of Growth
- 5. What to Do about Inequality
- 6. The Threat of Financial Hardship
- 7. Relieving Suffering
- 8. Marriages and Families
- 9. Education
- 10. The Quality of Government
- 11. The Significance of Happiness Research
- Notes
- Index