Happiness and public policy: theory, case studies and implications/ edited by Yew-Kwang Ng and Lok Sang Ho
Material type: TextPublication details: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006Description: 260 pISBN: 0230004970; 9780230004979Subject(s): Political planning -- Case studies | Happiness -- Case studiesDDC classification: 320Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University (Yangang Campus) General Book Section | 320 NG,/H (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P01016 |
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Introduction : Happiness as the only ultimate objective of public policy / Yew-Kwang Ng and Lok Sang Ho --
Quality-of-life in the modern society measured with happy life years / Ruut Veenhoven --
"The 'three happinesses' and public policy" / Lok Sang Ho --
Internal and external determinants of subjective well-being : review and policy implications / Ulrich Schimmack --
Economics and happiness research : insights from Austrian and public choice economics / Christopher J. Coyne and Peter J. Boettke --
Do cigarette taxes make smokers happier? / Jonathan Gruber and Sendhil Mullainathan --
Happiness and the pursuit of a life worth living : an anthropological approach / Gordon Mathews --
Psychological approaches to the relationship between happiness and public policy in P.R. China / Kan Shi [and others] --
Happiness and development : public policy initiatives in the kingdom of Bhutan / Vijay Kumar Shrotryia --
An exploratory study of resilience among Hong Kong employees : ways to happiness / Oi-ling Siu [and others] --
Fun, fervour or fitness? Sporting cultures and happiness / Brian Bridges --
Public policy implications of behavioural economics and happiness studies / Yew-Kwang Ng
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