Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (Second Edition) - Softcover

Layard, Richard

 
9780141016900: Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (Second Edition)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0141016906 ISBN 13: 9780141016900
Verlag: Penguin, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

In this landmark book, Richard Layard shows that there is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income. Yet as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not just anecdotally true, it is the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence shows that on average people have grown no happier in the last fifty years, even as average incomes have more than doubled. In fact, the First World has more depression, more alcoholism and more crime than fifty years ago. This paradox is true of Britain, the United States, continental Europe, and Japan. What is going on?

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Richard Layard is a leading economist who believes that the happiness of society does not necessarily equate to its income. He is best known for his work on unemployment and inequality, whihc provided the intellectual basis for Britain's improved unemployment policies. He founded the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, and since 2000 he has been a member of the House of Lords. His research into the subject of happiness brings together findings from such diverse areas as psychology, neuroscience, economics, sociology and philosophy.

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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0141016906
ISBN 13 
9780141016900
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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