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Progressing performance and wellbeing at work : travelling the loop
Paauwe, Jaap - 2024
"Through concise investigations into key questions such as how we can develop meaningful work experiences and how we can create an enabling work setting, Jaap Paauwe aids readers' understanding of how optimal workplace commitment and organizational performance may be achieved. Progressing...
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Handbook on the economics of happiness
Bruni, Luigino (contributor); Porta, Pier Luigi (contributor) - 2007
This book is a welcome consolidation and extension of the recent expanding debates on happiness and economics. Happiness and economics, as a new field for research, is now of pivotal interest particularly to welfare economists and psychologists. This Handbook provides an unprecedented forum for...
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Recent developments in the economics of happiness
Frey, Bruno S. - 2013
), 221-41. -- Clark, Andrew and Claudia Senik (2010), 'Who Compares to Whom? The Anatomy of Income Comparisons in Europe … social capital and health for well-being and the new life satisfaction approach to valuing public goods. Work on utility … Satisfaction Approach', Economic Journal, 119 (536), March, 482-515 -- Daniel Kahneman and Richard H. Thaler (2006), 'Anomalies …
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Intangible capital : its contribution to economic growth, well-being and rationality
Tomer, John F. - 2008
Despite increasing research efforts, there is still much confusion regarding the nature and contribution of the most intangible forms of capital. This book develops a comprehensive and unifying conception of intangible capital in order to understand its role with respect to economic growth,...
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Innovation, economic progress and the quality of life
Sweeney, Gerald Patrick (ed.) - 2001
Innovation, science and technology and the wealth gained from them make continuous media copy and yet there is a manifest imbalance in society, a paradox of more prosperity but growing exclusion. This book marks the 25th anniversary of the Six Countries Programme, which pioneered the study of...
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Handbook of creative cities
Mellander, Chorlotta (contributor);  … - 2011
With the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida in 2002, the "creative city" became the new hot topic among urban policymakers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories about the relationship between creative individuals and...
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What has happened to the quality of life in the advanced industrialized nations?
Wolff, Edward N. (contributor) - 2004
The contributors to this volume investigate to what extent welfare has increased in the United States over the postwar period and provide a rigorous examination of both conventional measures of the standard of living, as well as more inclusive indices. The chapters cover such topics as: race,...
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Feminist economics
Benería, Lourdes - 2011
Bettio and Janneke Plantenga (2004), 'Comparing Care Regimes in Europe', Feminist Economics, 10 (1), March, 85-113 -- Agneta …
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Taxation and the promotion of human happiness : an essay
Norman, George Warde - 2009
George Warde Norman was a Director of the Bank of England from 1821 to 1872, a key figure behind the Bank Charter Act of 1844, and one of the founders of the Political Economy Club. In 1821 G.W. Norman began an essay on taxation as part of the utilitarian programme. His vision was for increased...
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Wellbeing at work in a turbulent era
Brough, Paula (ed.); Kinman, Gail (ed.) - 2024
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the physical and mental health challenges facing workers today, focusing particularly on the social, technological, and political consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Delving into core perceptions of work culture, chapters also map out ways of...
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