An Economist's Lessons on Happiness: Farewell Dismal Science!

Once called the "dismal science," economics now offers prescriptions for improving people's happiness. In this book Richard...
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An Economist's Lessons on Happiness: Farewell Dismal Science! by Easterlin, Richard a.

An Economist's Lessons on Happiness: Farewell Dismal Science!

$40.75

An Economist's Lessons on Happiness: Farewell Dismal Science!

$40.75
Author: Richard a. Easterlin
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Once called the "dismal science," economics now offers prescriptions for improving people's happiness. In this book Richard Easterlin, the "father of happiness economics," draws on a half-century of his own research and that conducted by fellow economists and psychologists to answer in plain language questions like: Can happiness be measured? Will more money make me happier? What about finding a partner? Getting married? Having a baby? More exercise? Does religion help? Who is happier--women or men, young or old, rich or poor? How does happiness change as we go through different stages of life?

Public policy is also in the mix: Can the government increase people's happiness? Should the government increase their happiness? Which countries are the happiest and why? Does a country need to be rich to be happy? Does economic growth improve the human lot?

Some of the answers are surprising (no, more money won't do the trick; neither will economic growth; babies are a mixed blessing!), but they are all based on reason and well-vetted evidence from the fields of economics and psychology. In closing, Easterlin traces the genesis of the ongoing "Happiness Revolution" and considers its implications for people's lives down the road.



Author: Richard a. Easterlin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 03/02/2021
Pages: 179
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.42d
ISBN: 9783030619619

About the Author

Richard A. Easterlin is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a former president of the Population Association of America, Economic History Association and Western Economic Association International.



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