The pursuit of happiness
Subtitle: an economy of well-being
By: Carol Graham
Series: A Brookings focus book
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780815721277
Subjects: Economics; Psychological aspects; Happiness; Uncertainty; Quality of life
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Happiness : a new science?; title: What do we mean by happiness : toward a theory of agency and; title: Well-being; title: Happiness around the world : what do we know?; title: Adaptation and other puzzles posed by what we know; title: GNH versus GNP?