Happiness : lessons from a new science / Richard Layard.
Integrates insights gleaned from psychology, neuroscience, sociology, and applied economics to draw surprising conclusions about the true caauses of happiness and the means we have to effect it.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin,
2006.
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| Physical Description: | ix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
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Contents:
- What's the problem?
- What is happiness?
- Are we getting happier?
- If you're so rich, why aren't you happy?
- So what does make us happy?
- What's going wrong?
- Can we pursue a common good?
- The greatest happiness : is that the goal?
- Does economics have a clue?
- How can we tame the rat race?
- Can we afford to be secure?
- Can mind control mood?
- Do drugs help?
- Conclusions for today's world.