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001 2006045370
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008 060413s2006 enka b 001 0 eng
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245 00 $aHappiness and public policy :$btheory, case studies and implications /$cedited by Yew-Kwang Ng and Lok Sang Ho.
260 $aBasingstoke [England] ;$aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2006.
300 $axiii, 260 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : Happiness as the only ultimate objective of public policy / Yew-Kwang Ng and Lok Sang Ho -- Quality-of-life in the modern society measured with happy life years / Ruut Veenhoven -- "The 'three happinesses' and public policy" / Lok Sang Ho -- Internal and external determinants of subjective well-being : review and policy implications / Ulrich Schimmack -- Economics and happiness research : insights from Austrian and public choice economics / Christopher J. Coyne and Peter J. Boettke -- Do cigarette taxes make smokers happier? / Jonathan Gruber and Sendhil Mullainathan -- Happiness and the pursuit of a life worth living : an anthropological approach / Gordon Mathews -- Psychological approaches to the relationship between happiness and public policy in P.R. China / Kan Shi ... [et al.] -- Happiness and development : public policy initiatives in the kingdom of Bhutan / Vijay Kumar Shrotryia -- An exploratory study of resilience among Hong Kong employees : ways to happiness / Oi-ling Siu ... [et al.] -- Fun, fervour or fitness? Sporting cultures and happiness / Brian Bridges -- Public policy implications of behavioural economics and happiness studies / Yew-Kwang Ng.
650 0 $aPublic policy$vCase studies.
650 0 $aHappiness$vCase studies.
700 1 $aNg, Yew-Kwang.
700 1 $aHo, Lok-sang.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006045370-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006045370-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006045370-t.html