Happiness and Hardship: Opportunity and Insecurity in New Market Economies

by Stefano Pettinato and Carol Graham

Book Overview

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Subjective well being, or happiness, has been analyzed in detail by psychologists for decades. Yet only recently has it become the subject of economic analysis. In Happiness and Hardship, Carol Graham and Stefano Pettinato provide a new conceptual framework for analyzing the relationship between subjective well being and the political sustainability of market-oriented economic growth in 17 Latin American countries and Russia. Several variables--such...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815702418
• ISBN13: 9780815702412
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"