Happiness and public policy : theory, case studies and implications /
edited by Yew-Kwang Ng and Lok Sang Ho.
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- xiii, 260 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Happiness as the only ultimate objective of public policy / Yew-Kwang Ng and Lok Sang Ho -- Quality-of-life in the modern society measured with happy life years / Ruut Veenhoven -- "The 'three happinesses' and public policy" / Lok Sang Ho -- Internal and external determinants of subjective well-being : review and policy implications / Ulrich Schimmack -- Economics and happiness research : insights from Austrian and public choice economics / Christopher J. Coyne and Peter J. Boettke -- Do cigarette taxes make smokers happier? / Jonathan Gruber and Sendhil Mullainathan -- Happiness and the pursuit of a life worth living : an anthropological approach / Gordon Mathews -- Psychological approaches to the relationship between happiness and public policy in P.R. China / Kan Shi ... [et al.] -- Happiness and development : public policy initiatives in the kingdom of Bhutan / Vijay Kumar Shrotryia -- An exploratory study of resilience among Hong Kong employees : ways to happiness / Oi-ling Siu ... [et al.] -- Fun, fervour or fitness? Sporting cultures and happiness / Brian Bridges -- Public policy implications of behavioural economics and happiness studies / Yew-Kwang Ng.
0230004970 9780230004979
Political planning--Case studies.
Happiness--Case studies.
320.601 / YEH 2006
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Happiness as the only ultimate objective of public policy / Yew-Kwang Ng and Lok Sang Ho -- Quality-of-life in the modern society measured with happy life years / Ruut Veenhoven -- "The 'three happinesses' and public policy" / Lok Sang Ho -- Internal and external determinants of subjective well-being : review and policy implications / Ulrich Schimmack -- Economics and happiness research : insights from Austrian and public choice economics / Christopher J. Coyne and Peter J. Boettke -- Do cigarette taxes make smokers happier? / Jonathan Gruber and Sendhil Mullainathan -- Happiness and the pursuit of a life worth living : an anthropological approach / Gordon Mathews -- Psychological approaches to the relationship between happiness and public policy in P.R. China / Kan Shi ... [et al.] -- Happiness and development : public policy initiatives in the kingdom of Bhutan / Vijay Kumar Shrotryia -- An exploratory study of resilience among Hong Kong employees : ways to happiness / Oi-ling Siu ... [et al.] -- Fun, fervour or fitness? Sporting cultures and happiness / Brian Bridges -- Public policy implications of behavioural economics and happiness studies / Yew-Kwang Ng.
0230004970 9780230004979
Political planning--Case studies.
Happiness--Case studies.
320.601 / YEH 2006