Happiness : lessons from a new science / Richard Layard.
By: Layard, Richard.
New York : Penguin, 2006Description: ix, 310 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780143037019 (pbk.).Subject(s): Happiness | Happiness -- Economic aspects | Social psychologyGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-297) and index.
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.
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.