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 discussion of the economic issues relating to happiness. It reviews …

to the field of HR, it will additionally benefit students and researchers studying business, occupational psychology and …

, John and Homa Zarghamee (2011), 'Happiness and Time Preference: The Effect of Positive Affect in a Random … Well-being: Evidence from the USA', Science, 327 (5965), 576-79. -- Pischke, Jorn-Steffen (2011), 'Money and Happiness …-i-Carbonell (2004), Happiness Quantified - A Satisfaction Calculus Approach, Oxford: Oxford University Press. -- Sarracino, Francesco …

pt. 1. Career choice of MBA students from cross-national and interdisciplinary perspectives -- pt. 2. Early influences … entrepreneurs, their attitudes at the start of their careers as students, and in their later employment experiences …

the obstacles faced by researchers pursuing an academic career. From applying for grants to supervising Ph.D. students …

This timely and important book presents a unique study of happiness from both economic and political perspectives. It … offers an overview of contemporary research on the emergent field of happiness studies and contains contributions by some of …pt. I. Happiness -- pt. II. Happiness and economics -- pt. III. Happiness and politics -- pt. IV. What is to be done? …

significant component for improving the happiness, health and well-being of citizens, communities and society as a whole. In so … impact / Michael C. Davis and Christian M. End -- 8. Sports participation and happiness : evidence from US micro data …

, consumption and saving, the causes of the global financial crisis, economic growth and happiness and income distribution and the … volume, with an original introduction by the editor, will be an essential compendium for researchers and students interested … from Surveys of Happiness', American Economic Review, 91 (1), March, 335-41 -- Richard H. Thaler and Shlomo Benartzi (2004 …

original introduction to the literature, ensuring that these volumes will be an essential source of reference for both students …), 'Working Time As Gendered Time', Feminist Economics, 6 (1), March, 59-76 -- Maria Sagrario Floro (1995), 'Women's Well …-58 -- Elena Bardasi and Janet C. Gornick (2008), 'Working for Less? Women's Part-Time Wage Penalties Across Countries', Feminist …

the utilitarian programme. His vision was for increased human happiness through a wholesale reform of the revenue system …, never losing his faith in the utilitarian ideal or his belief in the property tax solution as the key to fiscal happiness …