Happiness Economics: A New Road to Measuring and Comparing Happiness

by Bernard M.S. van Praag and Ada Ferrer-I-Carbonell

HAPPINESS ECONOMICS deals with the concept of happiness in economics. Most economists until recently were very suspicious about happiness economics and the common opinion was that happiness is not empirically measurable. Actually there is now a growing body of serious economists who are willing, either reluctantly or wholeheartedly, to include happiness economics as a part of economic science. For a better understanding of happiness economics, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1601984383
• ISBN13: 9781601984388
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Now Publishers
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"