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Happiness Quantified: A Satisfaction Calculus Approach

Happiness Quantified: A Satisfaction Calculus Approach

Van Praag, Bernard
Ferrer-I-Carbonell, Ada

Hardcover

EconomicsGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0198286546
ISBN13: 9780198286547
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jul 8 2004
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.52
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.48
Language: English
How do we measure happiness? This important and long-awaited book presents a new and unified approach to the analysis of subjective satisfaction and income evaluation. Drawing on empirical analyses of German, British, Dutch, and Russian data, it develops new methodology to establish a model of well-being which includes satisfaction with life as a whole and with various domains of life. This method is applied to study individual and collective norms, to construct family-equivalence scales, to estimate health damages, compensation for externalities, and the construction of tax tariffs, and to define subjective inequalities with respect to well-being, income, and other domains of life. Written for a wide readership of social scientists, the book presents a theoretical and empirical breakthrough into a new and fruitful methodology in the social sciences.

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