The Origins of Happiness

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The Origins Of happiness The Science of Well- Being over the Life Course Andrew E. Clark, Sarah Flèche, Richard Layard, Nattavud ...

Copyright © 2018 by Princeton University Press Preface to the paperback edition, copyright © 2019 by Princeton University Press ...

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vii CONTENTS 1 Happiness over the Life Course: What Matters Most? 15 parT i. whaT makes a happy aDulT? Income 33 Education 51 ...

Contents viii parT iii. so whaT? Measuring Cost- Effectiveness in Terms of Happiness 197 The Origins of Happiness 211 Our Th ...

ix prefaCe TO The paperbaCk ediTiOn Since we wrote this book, the need for it has become steadily more apparent. More and more p ...

launch of the World Happiness Report. But there is also now a Global Happiness Council, which produces each year a Global Happin ...

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Introduction: The New Paradigm All great truths begin as blasphemies. — George Bernard Shaw In April 2016, the German chancellor ...

Introduction once said, “The care of human life and happiness . . . is the only legitimate object of good government.”^2 We agre ...

Introduction law and order, parks and the environment, and welfare pay- ments. Indeed one major reason why these activities are ...

Introduction measures are interesting, but we prefer life- satisfaction as our measure of well- being for a number of reasons. F ...

Introduction Can we also use life- satisfaction when we measure the well- being of children? Clearly the quality of life they ex ...

Introduction Putting it bluntly, most existing well- being research focuses on only one cause at a time (often with some control ...

Introduction skills, a harmonious home, and good mental health. And the child is then educated in schools that do or do not prom ...