| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 164 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Brookings focus books
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Brookings focus books.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Happiness : a new science? -- What do we mean by happiness : toward a theory of agency and -- Well-being -- Happiness around the world : what do we know? -- Adaptation and other puzzles posed by what we know -- GNH versus GNP? |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Economics -- Psychological aspects.
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Economics -- Psychological aspects. |
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Happiness.
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Happiness. |
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Quality of life.
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Quality of life. |
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Uncertainty.
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Uncertainty. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Graham, Carol, 1962- Pursuit of happiness. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2011 9780815721277 (DLC) 2011020418 (OCoLC)696099411 |
| ISBN |
9780815721284 (electronic book) |
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0815721285 (electronic book) |
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1283134551 |
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9781283134552 |
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1282241699 |
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9781282241695 |
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9780815724391 |
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081572439X |
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9780815721277 |
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0815721277 |
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