ISBN:
9781783471164
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (548 p)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bruni, Luigino Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Happiness and Quality of Life
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Offering a thorough assessment of the recent developments in the economic literature on happiness and quality of life, this Handbook astutely considers both methods of estimation and policy application. The expert contributors critically present in-depth research on a wide range of topics including culture and media, inequality, and the relational and emotional side of human life. Accessible and far-reaching, it will prove an invaluable resource for students and scholars of welfare and economics
Abstract:
Front matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Happiness and quality of life reconciled -- 2. Happiness and social institutions -- PART I QUALITY OF LIFE -- 3. New frontiers: societal measures of subjective well-being for input to policy -- 4. Linking happiness to health: comparisons between hedonic and eudaimonic well-being -- 5. Subjective indicators of well-being: conceptual background and applications in social science -- 6. Quality of life and smart cities -- 7. Quality of life and inequality -- 8. The history of the idea of quality of life
Abstract:
9. Genetic and environmental contributions to life satisfaction -- 10. Indicators of happiness vs. quality of happiness: methodology and theory -- 11. Leading a life of quality: conceptualizing quality of life -- 12. Globalization and quality of life -- 13. Quality of life studies and positive psychology -- PART II HAPPINESS -- 14. Quality of life and happiness: concepts and measures -- 15. Economics, well-being and happiness: history and protagonists -- 16. Culture and fine arts: open-ended choices and the formation of interest -- 17. Happiness and health
Abstract:
18. Happiness, subjective and objective indicators -- 19. Women and happiness -- 20. Relational goods and happiness data -- 21. Happiness and new media -- 22. Happiness, relational goods and hedonic methodology -- 23. The idea of happiness in Italy -- Index
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