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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Graham, Carol, 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2011.
Series:Brookings focus books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Happiness : a new science?
  • What do we mean by happiness : toward a theory of agency and well-being
  • Happiness around the world : what do we know?
  • Adaptation and other puzzles posed by what we know
  • GNH versus GNP?