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

Ruut Veenhoven

Chapter 2 in Happiness and Public Policy, 2006, pp 19-44 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The human species has lived for most of its time in simple hunter-gatherer societies. Agrarian societies developed less than 5000 years ago and it is only in the last 200 years that a “modern” industrial society has come into being. Today this industrial society is rapidly transforming into a global information society.

Keywords: Modern Society; United Nations Development Program; Happy Life; Social Indicator Research; Happy People (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230288027_2

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