@article{1435268,
      recid = {1435268},
      author = {Easterlin, Richard A., and Easterlin, Nancy L.,},
      title = {An economist's lessons on happiness : farewell dismal  science /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvii, 179 pages) :},
      abstract = {Once called the "dismal science," economics now offers  prescriptions for improving people's happiness. In this  book Richard Easterlin, the "father of happiness  economics," draws on a half-century of his own research and  that conducted by fellow economists and psychologists to  answer in plain language questions like: Can happiness be  measured? Will more money make me happier? What about  finding a partner? Getting married? Having a baby? More  exercise? Does religion help? Who is happier--women or men,  young or old, rich or poor? How does happiness change as we  go through different stages of life? Public policy is also  in the mix: Can the government increase people's happiness?  Should the government increase their happiness? Which  countries are the happiest and why? Does a country need to  be rich to be happy? Does economic growth improve the human  lot? Some of the answers are surprising (no, more money  won't do the trick; neither will economic growth; babies  are a mixed blessing!), but they are all based on reason  and well-vetted evidence from the fields of economics and  psychology. In closing, Easterlin traces the genesis of the  ongoing "Happiness Revolution" and considers its  implications for people's lives down the road},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1435268},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61962-6},
}