Bok The Politics of Happiness

What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3219-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Derek Bok is the 300th Anniversary Research Professor at Harvard University. From 1971 to 1991, he served as Harvard's twenty-fifth president, and he served again as interim president from 2006 to 2007. He is the author of The State of the Nation and The Trouble with Government, and coauthor of The Shape of the River (Princeton).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bok, Derek

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

CHAPTER 1: What Investigators Have Discovered 9

CHAPTER 2: The Reliability of Research on Happiness 32

CHAPTER 3: Should Policy-Makers Use Happiness Research? 45

CHAPTER 4: The Question of Growth 63

CHAPTER 5: What to Do about Inequality 79

CHAPTER 6: The Threat of Financial Hardship 99

CHAPTER 7: Relieving Suffering 124

CHAPTER 8: Marriages and Families 139

CHAPTER 9: Education 156

CHAPTER 10: The Quality of Government 179

CHAPTER 11: The Significance of Happiness Research 204

Notes 213

Index 247

Über Autor(innen)

Derek Bok is the 300th Anniversary Research Professor at Harvard University. From 1971 to 1991, he served as Harvard's twenty-fifth president, and he served again as interim president from 2006 to 2007. He is the author of The State of the Nation and The Trouble with Government, and coauthor of The Shape of the River (Princeton).