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How do we measure happiness? Focusing on subjective measures as a proxy for welfare and well-being, this book finds ways to do that. Subjective measures have been used by psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, and, more recently, economists to answer a variety of scientifically and politically relevant questions. Van Praag, a pioneer in this field since 1971, and Ferrer-i-Carbonell present in this book a generally applicable methodology for the analysis of subjective satisfaction. Drawing on a range of surveys on people's satisfaction with their jobs, income, housing, marriages, and government policy, among other areas of life, this book shows how satisfaction with life "as a whole" is an aggregate of these domain satisfactions. Using German, British, Dutch, and Russian data, the authors cover a wide range of topics. This groundbreaking book presents a new and fruitful methodology that constitutes a welcome addition to the social sciences. The paperback edition has been revised to bring the literature review up-to-date and the chapter on poverty has been revised and extended to take account of new research.

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Economics Economic theory & philosophy

• Full title: Happiness Quantified
• Subtitle: A Satisfaction Calculus Approach
• Author: Bernard M.S. van Praag, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392
• EAN: 9780199226146
• ISBN: 0199226148
• ID: 04866583
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 592 g
• Dimensions: 176 × 233 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. December 2007

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