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satisfaction / Mario Lucchini, Sara Della Bella and Luca Crivelli -- 10. Indicators of happiness vs. quality of happiness …. Globalization and quality of life / M. Joseph Sirgy and Chad Miller -- 13. Quality of life studies and positive psychology / Helena … quality of life and the impact of globalization, links between happiness and health, comparisons between hedonic and …
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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 … Satisfaction Approach', Economic Journal, 119 (536), March, 482-515 -- Daniel Kahneman and Richard H. Thaler (2006), 'Anomalies … Diener, Yannis Georgellis and Richard E. Lucas (2008), 'Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline …
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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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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 the leading figures in the field
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This interdisciplinary Handbook combines both mainstream and heterodox economics to assess the nature, scope and importance of leisure activities. Surprisingly, the field of leisure economics is not, thus far, a particularly integrated or coherent one. In this Handbook a wide ranging body of...
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centuries wine was very much a European product. While that is still the case today--three-quarters of world wine production …, consumption and trade involve Europe and most of the rest involves just a handful of New World countries settled by Europeans …pt. 1. Overview -- pt. 2. The old world -- pt. 3. The new world -- pt. 4. Other emerging markets …
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As the world entered the twenty-first century, global skill shortages in many occupations were evident throughout the … world. While these were mitigated by a global recession, there is no generally agreed upon method for measuring these …1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical aspects of skill shortages -- 3. Globalization and skill shortages -- 4. Skill …
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Three years after the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, economic growth has resurfaced across the world …pt. 1. Heading to 2020 : a new world economic governance? -- pt. 2. Carving out a place for the EU …
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