TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ng,Yew-Kwang
AU  - Ho,Lok-sang
TI  - Happiness and public policy: theory, case studies and implications 
SN  - 0230004970
U1  - 320.601 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Basingstoke [England], New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Political planning
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Happiness
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006045370-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006045370-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006045370-t.html
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