Measuring the subjective well-being of nations
Subtitle: national accounts of time use and well-being
By: edited by Alan B. Krueger.
Contributors: Krueger, Alan B.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780226454566
Subjects: Happiness -- Congresses; Well-being -- Congresses; Life -- Congresses; National characteristics -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Description: Putting forward a new method for measuring, comparing, and analyzing the relationship between happiness and the way people spend their time - across countries, regions, and history - this resource will help set the agenda for research.
Notes: Papers originally presented at a conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 7-8, 2008.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: National time accounting: the currency of life / Alan B. Krueger, Daniel Kahneman, David Schkade, Norbert Schwarz, and Arthur A. Stone; title: That which makes life worthwhile / George Loewenstein; title: Measuring national well being / David M. Cutler; title: National time accounting and national economic accounting / J. Steven Landefeld; title: Measuring real income with leisure and household production / William Nordhaus; title: Well-being measurement and public policy / Richard Layard; title: International evidence on well-being / David G. Blanchflower; title: Thoughts on "National time accounting: the currency of life" / Erik Hurst; title: Rejoinder / Alan B. Krueger, Daniel Kahneman, David Schkade, Norbert Schwarz, and Arthur A. Stone.