The pursuit of happiness an economy of well-being /

"Focuses on the role in the policymaking process of new metrics for measuring the effects on individual well-being of institutional, macroeconomic, and policy environments--for example, the effects of macroeconomic uncertainty and lack of access to health insurance--as well as the effects of fa...

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Main Author: Graham, Carol, 1962-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2011.
Series:Brookings focus books.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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300 |a xi, 164 p. :  |b ill. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Happiness : a new science -- What we mean by happiness : a "theory" of agency and well-being -- Happiness around the world : what we know -- Adaptation and other puzzles -- GNH versus GNP?. 
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