Series foreword -- Preface -- Major developments -- Research on happiness -- The relationship of happiness to utility … -- How income affects happiness -- How unemployment affects happiness -- How inflation and inequality affect happiness … -- Pushing ahead -- The public sphere -- Self-employment and voluntary work -- Marriage and happiness -- Watching television …

it difficult to introduce new ideas not in line with received theory. Happiness research, however, has the potential to … suggest different ways for government to affect individual well-being. In Happiness, Bruno Frey, emphasizing empirical … evidence rather than theoretical conjectures, substantiates these three revolutionary claims for happiness research. - After …