Search results for ""author richard a. easterlin""
The University of Chicago Press Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare
In this influential work, Richard A. Easterlin shows how the size of a generation—the number of persons born in a particular year—directly and indirectly affects the personal welfare of its members, the make-up and breakdown of the family, and the general well being of the economy. "[Easterlin] has made clear, I think unambiguously, that the baby-boom generation is economically underprivileged merely because of its size. And in showing this, he demonstrates that population size can be as restrictive as a factor as sex, race, or class on equality of opportunity in the U.S."—Jeffrey Madrick, Business Week
£30.59
The University of Michigan Press Growth Triumphant
An economic historian and demographer considers what the world, freed from material need, will look like
£23.95
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Happiness in Economics
Happiness in Economics presents a selection of the most important economics articles on individuals' subjective well-being. The volume demonstrates that economics is relevant for people's happiness.Part I includes key early papers on happiness and income, determinants of the happiness-income relationship, and policy implications, as well as the Leyden analysis of income norms. Part II contains recent analyses of the determinants of happiness.This fascinating and innovative collection will provide invaluable information and analysis for students, researchers and policymakers.
£114.00
Springer Nature Switzerland AG An Economist’s Lessons on Happiness: Farewell Dismal Science!
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.
£10.03
