Happiness Explained
What human flourishing is and what we can do to promote it
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 March 2016
- ISBN 9780198735458
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages158 pages
- Size 226x146x15 mm
- Weight 314 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 Table 0
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Short description:
Offers a response to one of the oldest questions known to humankind namely, what is happiness and how can we ensure that communities are flourishing, happy places for people to live and work?
MoreLong description:
What is human happiness and how can we promote it?
These questions are central to human existence and Happiness Explained draws on scientific research from economics, psychology, and philosophy, as well as a range of other disciplines, to outline a new paradigm in which human flourishing plays a central role in the assessment of national and global progress. It shows why the traditional national income approach is limited as a measure of human wellbeing and demonstrates how the contributors to happiness, wellbeing, and quality of life can be measured and understood across the human life course. Discussing wide-ranging aspects, from parenting, decent employment, friendship, education, and health in old age, through to money, autonomy, and fairness, as well as personal strategies and governmental polices used in the pursuit of happiness, it offers a science-based understanding of human flourishing.
Written by an economist involved in helping governmental organisations move 'beyond GDP', Happiness Explained shows how a wide range of factors that contribute to better and happier lives and how, together, they provide a new blueprint for the assessment of progress in terms of personal wellbeing.
An enjoyable and multifaceted tour... convincingly expounds the need for a rich conception of human well-being in order to quantify individual and social progress.
Table of Contents:
The Need to Go Beyond GDP
Human Flourishing
The Wellbeing Space - What it is and How we are Doing?
Quality of Life in Childhood and Older Age
The Economics of Happiness and Wellbeing
Psychological Motivation, Interactions, and Strategies
Fairness and Justice
International and Policy Perspectives
Progress as Human Development
