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_bYEH 2006
245 0 0 _aHappiness and public policy :
_btheory, case studies and implications /
_cedited by Yew-Kwang Ng and Lok Sang Ho.
260 _aBasingstoke [England] ;
_aNew York :
_bPalgrave Macmillan,
_c2006.
300 _axiii, 260 p. :
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_c23 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : 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.
590 _anahid
650 0 _aPolitical planning
_vCase studies.
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650 0 _aHappiness
_vCase studies.
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700 1 _aNg, Yew-Kwang.
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700 1 _aHo, Lok-sang.
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856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006045370-b.html
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006045370-d.html
856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006045370-t.html
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