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The question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the last decades has the study of well-being become a scientific endeavor. This book is based on the idea that we can empirically study quality of life and make cross-society comparisons of subjective well-being (SWB). A potential problem in studying SWB across societies is that of cultural relativism: if societies have different values, the members of those societies will use different criteria in evaluating the success of their society. By examining, however, such aspects of SWB as whether people believe they are living correctly, whether they enjoy their lives, and whether others important to them believe they are living well, SWB can represent the degree to which people in a society are achieving the values they hold dear. The contributors analyze SWB in relation to money, age, gender, democracy, and other factors. Among the interesting findings is that although wealthy nations are on average happier than poor ones, people do not get happier as a wealthy nation grows wealthier.
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"this volume marks an important step..."
— Neil Levy, Metapsychology
Product Description
The question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the last decades has the study of well-being become a scientific endeavor. This book is based on the idea that we can empirically study quality of life and make cross-society comparisons of subjective well-being (SWB). A potential problem in studying SWB across societies is that of cultural relativism: if societies have different values, the members of those societies will use different criteria in evaluating the success of their society. By examining, however, such aspects of SWB as whether people believe they are living correctly, whether they enjoy their lives, and whether others important to them believe they are living well, SWB can represent the degree to which people in a society are achieving the values they hold dear. The contributors analyze SWB in relation to money, age, gender, democracy, and other factors. Among the interesting findings is that although wealthy nations are on average happier than poor ones, people do not get happier as a wealthy nation grows wealthier.
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- Happiness and Economics: How the Economy and Institutions Affect Human Well-Being. by Bruno S. Frey on 6 pages
- Challenges for Quality of Life in the Contemporary World: Advances in quality-of-life studies, theory and research (Social Indicators Research Series) by Wolfgang Glatzer on page 9, page 309, and page 310
- Europe's Macadam, America's Tar: How America Really Compares to "Old Europe" by Alan Goldfein on page 14, and Back Matter
- The Birth of Plenty : How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created by William J. Bernstein on page 323, and Back Matter
- European Welfare Production: Institutional Configuration and Distributional Outcome (Social Indicators Research Series) by Joachim Vogel on page 217, and Back Matter
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