Happiness Explained: What Human Flourishing Is and What We Can Do to Promote It

by Paul Anand

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198735456
• ISBN13: 9780198735458
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.7"