The Origins of Happiness: The Science of Well-Being Over the Life Course

by Nattavudh Powdthavee, Richard Layard, Andrew E. Clark, et al.

Book Overview

What makes people happy? Why should governments care about people's well-being? How would policy change if well-being were the main objective? The Origins of Happiness seeks to revolutionize how we think about human priorities and to promote public policy changes that are based on what really matters to people. Drawing on a uniquely comprehensive range of evidence from longitudinal data on over one hundred thousand individuals in Britain,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691177899
• ISBN13: 9780691177892
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 8.6"