Happiness Around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires - Hardcover

Graham, Carol

 
9780199549054: Happiness Around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires

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Can we really answer the question what makes people happy? Can policy and the environment influence happiness? This book by an expert in the field is an attempt to answer these questions.

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Carol Graham is Senior Fellow and Charles Robinson Chair at the Brookings Institution and College Park Professor at the University of Maryland. She served as Vice President and Director of Governance Studies at Brookings from 2002-2004 and as a Special Advisor to the Deputy Managing Director of the IMF. She was a Special Adviser to the Executive Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank while on a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, and has consulted at a number of international financial institutions. Her research has received support from the Hewlett, Tinker, and MacArthur Foundations, as well as the Office of the Chief Economist of the World Bank. She is the author of numerous books and articles on poverty, inequality, and social welfare policy. Graham has an A.B. from Princeton University, an M.A. from The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a Ph.D. from Oxford University.

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ISBN 10:  0199606285 ISBN 13:  9780199606283
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA, 2012
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