Happiness Around the World: The paradox of happy peasants and miserable millionaires

Oxford University Press (2009)
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The book reviews the theory and concepts of happiness, explaining how these concepts underpin a line of research which is both an attempt to understand the determinants of happiness and a tool for understanding the effects of a host of phenomena on human well being.

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