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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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social capital and health for well-being and the new life satisfaction approach to valuing public goods. Work on utility … of Air Pollution Using Life Satisfaction Data', Ecological Economics, 58 (4), 801-13. -- Wolfers, Justin (2003), 'Is … Satisfaction Approach', Economic Journal, 119 (536), March, 482-515 -- Daniel Kahneman and Richard H. Thaler (2006), 'Anomalies …
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"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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In February 2003, the London Congestion Charging Scheme was introduced and in 2006 a similar policy was introduced in Stockholm. In both cases automobile traffic entering the cordon declined by about 20 percent. This book evaluates these and other similar programs exploring their implications...
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significant component for improving the happiness, health and well-being of citizens, communities and society as a whole. In so …1. Participation in physical activity and health outcomes : evidence from the Canadian Community Health Survey / Jane E …. Ruseski and Brad R. Humphreys -- 2. An economic analysis of the subjective health and well-being of physical activity / Paul …
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"This book provides a comprehensive examination of the physical and mental health challenges facing workers today …-pandemic, considering increased working from home, and higher demand for services and support for mental health. The book also discusses … changes in how the fundamental value of work is perceived and how it adds to, or detracts from, workers' health and wellbeing …
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Why do power prices seem to be correlated with the carbon price in some markets and not in others? This crucial question is at the centre of Francesco Gullì's enlightening book, through which the contributing authors investigate a number of related issues. In particular, they explore why power...
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instruments for pollution control. At the international level it discusses measures to promote international cooperation for the …
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In this book, Tingsong Jiang extensively discusses the wider issues of economic instruments of pollution control as … analysis of economic instruments of pollution control, and is followed by the application of these in CO2 emission control. The … former presents the discussion of pollution control policies in general equilibrium settings, focusing on the comparison of …
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