Happiness and public policy
Subtitle: theory, case studies and implications
By: edited by Yew-Kwang Ng and Lok Sang Ho.
Contributors: Ng, Yew-Kwang.; Ho, Lok-sang.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780230004979
Subjects: Public policy -- Case studies; Happiness -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Happiness as the only ultimate objective of public policy / Yew-Kwang Ng and Lok Sang Ho; title: Quality-of-life in the modern society measured with happy life years / Ruut Veenhoven; title: "The 'three happinesses' and public policy" / Lok Sang Ho; title: Internal and external determinants of subjective well-being : review and policy implications / Ulrich Schimmack; title: Economics and happiness research : insights from Austrian and public choice economics / Christopher J. Coyne and Peter J. Boettke; title: Do cigarette taxes make smokers happier? / Jonathan Gruber and Sendhil Mullainathan; title: Happiness and the pursuit of a life worth living : an anthropological approach / Gordon Mathews; title: Psychological approaches to the relationship between happiness and public policy in P.R. China / Kan Shi ... [et al.]; title: Happiness and development : public policy initiatives in the kingdom of Bhutan / Vijay Kumar Shrotryia; title: An exploratory study of resilience among Hong Kong employees : ways to happiness / Oi-ling Siu ... [et al.]; title: Fun, fervour or fitness? Sporting cultures and happiness / Brian Bridges; title: Public policy implications of behavioural economics and happiness studies / Yew-Kwang Ng.