The politics of happiness: what government can learn from the new research on well-being

Abstract

Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 CHAPTER 1: What Investigators Have Discovered 9 CHAPTER 2: The Reliability of Research on Happiness 32 CHAPTER 3: Should Policy-Makers Use Happiness Research? 45 CHAPTER 4: The Question of Growth 63 CHAPTER 5: What to Do about Inequality 79 CHAPTER 6: The Threat of Financial Hardship 99 CHAPTER 7: Relieving Suffering 124 CHAPTER 8: Marriages and Families 139 CHAPTER 9: Education 156 CHAPTER 10: The Quality of Government 179 CHAPTER 11: The Significance of Happiness Research 204 Notes 213 Index 247