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Measuring happiness : the economics of well-being / Joachim Weimann, Andreas Knabe, and Ronnie Schöb.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: MWT11715606Language: English Original language: German Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (x, 212 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262323710
  • 0262323710
  • 0262529769
  • 9780262529761
Uniform titles:
  • Geld macht doch glücklich. English
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Measuring happinessDDC classification:
  • 306 23
LOC classification:
  • HN25 .W4313 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The economics of happiness and its most important results. The end of materialism? -- Economists' way of thinking : "more is better than less" -- The Easterlin attack -- If money doesn't make us happy, what then? -- The economic determinants of happiness -- What is to be done if money doesn't make us happy? -- What is happiness research telling us? Are we measuring correctly? -- How much truth is there in the Easterlin Paradox? -- Unemployed and happy?! -- The importance of relative position -- Conclusion.
Summary: An investigation of the happiness-prosperity connection and whether economists can measure well-being.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The economics of happiness and its most important results. The end of materialism? -- Economists' way of thinking : "more is better than less" -- The Easterlin attack -- If money doesn't make us happy, what then? -- The economic determinants of happiness -- What is to be done if money doesn't make us happy? -- What is happiness research telling us? Are we measuring correctly? -- How much truth is there in the Easterlin Paradox? -- Unemployed and happy?! -- The importance of relative position -- Conclusion.

An investigation of the happiness-prosperity connection and whether economists can measure well-being.

Text in English.

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