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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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press
©2002.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctvc2rnvg |
Table of Contents:
- New approaches to old inequities: mobility, opportunity, and subjective well-being
- Mobility, subjective well-being, and public perceptions: stuck in the tunnel or moving up the ladder?
- Concepts and trends in income mobility
- Happiness, markets, and democracy: Latin America, Russia, and the United States
- Frustrated achievers: mobility trends and subjective well-being
- Frustrated achievers in a global economy: challenges for policy and for future research.