| Happiness Quantified: A Satisfaction Calculus Approach Revised Edition Contributor(s): Van Praag, Bernard (Author), Ferrer-I-Carbonell, Ada (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199226148 ISBN-13: 9780199226146 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $64.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2008 Annotation: How do we measure happiness? This important and long-awaited book presents a new and unified approach to the analysis of subjective satisfaction and income evaluation. Drawing on empirical analyses of German, British, Dutch, and Russian data, it develops new methodology to establish a model of well-being which includes satisfaction with life as a whole and with various domains of life. This method is applied to study individual and collective norms, to construct family-equivalence scales, to estimate health damages, compensation for externalities, and the construction of tax tariffs, and to define subjective inequalities with respect to well-being, income, and other domains of life. Written for a wide readership of social scientists, the book presents a theoretical and empirical breakthrough into a new and fruitful methodology in the social sciences. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Econometrics - Business & Economics | Economics - Theory - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 302.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.35" W x 9.16" (1.33 lbs) 392 pages |
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| Publisher Description: How do we measure happiness? This important and long-awaited book presents a new and unified approach to the analysis of subjective satisfaction and income evaluation. Drawing on empirical analyses of German, British, Dutch, and Russian data, it develops new methodology to establish a model of well-being which includes satisfaction with life as a whole and with various domains of life. This method is applied to study individual and collective norms, to construct family-equivalence scales, to estimate health damages, compensation for externalities, and the construction of tax tariffs, and to define subjective inequalities with respect to well-being, income, and other domains of life. Written for a wide readership of social scientists, the book presents a theoretical and empirical breakthrough into a new and fruitful methodology in the social sciences. |
