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Author Bok, Derek Curtis.

Title The politics of happiness : what government can learn from the new research on well-being / Derek Bok.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2010]
©2010

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 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  306.0973 BOK    Check Shelf
Description viii, 262 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-246) and index.
Contents What investigators have discovered -- The reliability of research on happiness -- Should policy-makers use happiness research? -- The question of growth -- What to do about inequality -- The threat of financial hardship -- Relieving suffering -- Marriages and families -- Education -- The quality of government -- The significance of happiness research.
Subject Well-being -- United States.
Well-being -- Research -- United States.
Quality of life -- United States.
Quality of life -- Research -- United States.
Happiness -- United States.
Happiness -- Research -- United States.
United States -- Social policy -- 1993-
ISBN 9780691144894 hardcover alkaline paper
0691144893 hardcover alkaline paper
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