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AN ECONOMISTS LESSONS ON HAPPINESS - RICHARD A ...

Once called the dismal science  economics now offers prescriptions for improving people's
happiness. In this book Richard Easterlin  the father of happiness economics  draws on a
half-century of his own research and that conducted by fellow economists and psychologists to
answer in plain language questions like: Can happiness be measured? Will more money make me
happier? What about finding a partner? Getting married? Having a baby? More exercise? Does
religion help? Who is happier-women or men  young or old  rich or poor? How does happiness
change as we go through different stages of life? Public policy is also in the mix: Can the
government increase people's happiness? Should the government increase their happiness? Which
countries are the happiest and why? Does a country need to be rich to be happy? Does economic
growth improve the human lot? Some of the answers are surprising (no  more money won't do the
trick  neither will economic growth  babies are a mixed blessing!)  but they are all based on
reason and well-vetted evidence from the fields of economics and psychology. In closing 
Easterlin traces the genesis of the ongoing Happiness Revolution and considers its implications
for people's lives down the road.

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