Happiness, Economics and Public Policy

Happiness, Economics and Public PolicyThis book contains commentaries by Samuel Brittan and Melanie Powell. In Happiness, Economics and Public Policy, Helen Johns and Paul Ormerod analyse the economic research that underlies politicians' growing preoccupation with measures of 'well being'. In a lucid and compelling analysis, written for economists and non economists alike, the authors find that happiness research cannot be used to justify government intervention in the way its proponents

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A study of workers' rights in a non-unionized field in Lebanon