Overview
Everybody wants to be happy. But how much happiness - precisely - will each life choice bring? Should I get married? Am I really going to feel happy about the career that I picked? How can we decide not only which choice is better for us, but how much i's better for us? The result of new, unique research, The Happiness Equation brings to a general readership for the first time the new science of happiness economics.
Full Product Details
Author: Nick Powdthavee
Publisher: Icon Books
Imprint: Icon Books
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.208kg
ISBN: 9781848312463
ISBN 10: 1848312466
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 02 June 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'This intelligent and entertaining book shows how the scientific study of happiness is changing the field of economics - and the world!' Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness 'An important, readable, incisive, and often marvellously funny book. The author is an international expert in the field and his deep knowledge shines through in the prose.' Andrew J Oswald, University of Warwick 'An adventure to one of the new frontiers of knowledge, this book is a masterful blend of personal experience, contemporary culture, and social science' Richard Easterlin, Professor of Economics, University of Southern California
'This intelligent and entertaining book shows how the scientific study of happiness is changing the field of economics - and the world!' Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness 'An important, readable, incisive, and often marvellously funny book. The author is an international expert in the field and his deep knowledge shines through in the prose.' Andrew J Oswald, University of Warwick 'An adventure to one of the new frontiers of knowledge, this book is a masterful blend of personal experience, contemporary culture, and social science' Richard Easterlin, Professor of Economics, University of Southern California
Author Information
Dr. Nattavudh (Nick) Powdthavee is a behavioural economist at the University of York (shortly to move to the Department of Economics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). Discussions of his work on the economics of happiness have appeared in over 50 major international newspapers in the past five years, including the New York Times and the Guardian, as well as on TV, including Channel 5 News and The Wright Stuff. He is originally from Thailand.
