| Edition |
Revised edition. |
| Description |
xix, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages[337]-350) and index. |
| Contents |
1: Introduction -- 2: The Analysis of Income Satisfaction with an Application to Family Equivalence Scales -- 3: Domain Satisfactions -- 4: The Aggregation of Satisfactions: General Satisfaction as an Aggregate -- 5: Political Satisfaction -- 6: Males, Females, and Households -- 7: The Impact on Past and Future on Present Satisfaction -- 8: The Influence of the Reference Group on our Norms -- 9: Health and Subjective Well-being -- 10: The Effects of Climate on Welfare and Well-being: External Effects -- 11: How to Find Compensations for Aircraft Noise Nuisance -- 12: Taxation and Well-being -- 13: Subjective Income Inequalities -- 14: A generalized approach to subjective inequalities -- 15: Poverty -- 16: Epilogue. |
| Summary |
"How do we measure happiness? Focusing on subjective measures as a proxy for welfare and well-being, this book finds ways to do that. Subjective measures have been used by psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, and, more recently, economists to answer a variety of scientifically and politically relevant questions. Van Praag, a pioneer in this field since 1971, and Ferrer-i-Carbonell present in this book a generally applicable methodology for the analysis of subjective satisfaction. Drawing on a range of surveys on people's satisfaction with their jobs, income, housing, marriages, and government policy, among other areas of life, this book shows how satisfaction with life "as a whole" is an aggregate of these domain satisfactions. Using German, British, Dutch, and Russian data, the authors cover a wide range of topics. This groundbreaking book presents a new and fruitful methodology that constitutes a welcome addition to the social sciences. The paperback edition has been revised to bring the literature review up-to-date and the chapter on poverty has been revised and extended to take account of new research." -- Book cover. |
| Subject |
Happiness -- Testing.
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Happiness -- Economic aspects.
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Satisfaction -- Testing.
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Satisfaction -- Economic aspects.
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Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology.
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Quality of life.
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| Added Author |
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada.
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| ISBN |
9780198286547 |
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0198286546 |
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9780199226146 paperback $35.00 |
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0199226148 paperback |
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