Happiness and Public Policy

Edited by Yew-Kwang Ng () and Lok Sang Ho

in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan

Date: 2006
ISBN: 978-0-230-28802-7
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: Happiness as the Only Ultimate Objective of Public Policy

Yew-Kwang Ng and Lok Sang Ho

Ch 2 Quality-of-Life in the Modern Society Measured with Happy Life Years

Ruut Veenhoven

Ch 3 The ‘Three Happinesses’ and Public Policy

Lok Sang Ho

Ch 4 Internal and External Determinants of Subjective Well-Being: Review and Policy Implications

Ulrich Schimmack

Ch 5 Economics and Happiness Research: Insights from Austrian and Public Choice Economics

Christopher Coyne and Peter J. Boettke

Ch 6 Do Cigarette Taxes Make Smokers Happier?

Jonathan Gruber and Sendhil Mullainathan

Ch 7 Happiness and the Pursuit of a Life Worth Living: An Anthropological Approach

Gordon Mathews

Ch 8 Psychological Approaches to the Relationship between Happiness and Public Policy in P.R. China

Kan Shi, Xiao Lu Wang, Rui Zheng, Wei Shi, Jia Fang Lu and Hong Xia Fan

Ch 9 Happiness and Development — Public Policy Initiatives in the Kingdom of Bhutan

Vijay Kumar Shrotryia

Ch 10 An Exploratory Study of Resilience Among Hong Kong Employees: Ways to Happiness

Oi-ling Siu, S. L. Chow, David R. Phillips and Lin Lin

Ch 11 Fun, Fervor or Fitness?: Sporting Cultures and Happiness

Brian Bridges

Ch 12 Public Policy Implications of Behavioral Economics and Happiness Studies

Yew-Kwang Ng

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