Happiness and hardship : opportunity and insecurity in new market economies /
Subjective well being, or happiness, has been analyzed in detail by psychologists for decades. Yet only recently has it become the subject of economic analysis. In Happiness and Hardship, Carol Graham and Stefano Pettinato provide a new conceptual framework for analyzing the relationship between sub...
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| Formaat: | Licensed eBooks |
| Taal: | Engels |
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press
©2002.
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| Online toegang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctvc2rnvg |
| Samenvatting: | Subjective well being, or happiness, has been analyzed in detail by psychologists for decades. Yet only recently has it become the subject of economic analysis. In Happiness and Hardship, Carol Graham and Stefano Pettinato provide a new conceptual framework for analyzing the relationship between subjective well being and the political sustainability of market-oriented economic growth in 17 Latin American countries and Russia. Several variables#x97;such as marital status, employment, and inflation#x97;are known to influence happiness. Graham and Pettinato have identified other variables that have impor. |
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| Fysieke beschrijving: | 1 online resource (xi, 174 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-165) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0815798555 9780815798552 081570240X 9780815702405 0815702418 9780815702412 |