An Economist’s Lessons on Happiness: Farewell Dismal Science! by Richard A. Easterlin
English | PDF,EPUB | 2021 | 184 Pages | ISBN : 3030619613 | 8.6 MB
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?