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Title
An economist's lessons on happiness : farewell dismal science / Richard A. Easterlin ; Consulting editor Nancy L. Easterlin.
ISBN
3030619621 (electronic book)
9783030619626 (electronic bk.)
9783030619619
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 179 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-61962-6 doi
Call Number
HB74.P8 E27 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
330.019
Summary
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
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 05, 2021).
Introduction
Part I: First Lessons
Measuring Happiness
Does Money Make People Happy?
How Does Health Affect Happiness?
Family Life and Happiness
How Can I Increase My Happiness?
Part II: Next Lessons
Can Government Increase My Happiness: Transition Countries
Can Government Increase My Happiness: Nordic Countries
Happiness or GDP?
Part III: Q & A
Who Is Happier
Young or Old? Women or Men?
More on Money and Happiness
What About Democracy, Religion, Charity, Volunteering, Etc.?
Who to Believe? Psychology or Economics?
Critiquing the Paradox
Part IV: History Lessons
Dawn of the Happiness Revolution
Dream on, Professor!
