Rising happiness in nations,1946-2004. A reply to Easterlin
December 2006
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volume 79, issue 3 pp 421-436.
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ABSTRACT <br/> The ‘Easterlin paradox’ holds that economic growth does not add to the quality-of-life and that this appears in the fact that average happiness in nations has not risen in the last few decades. The latest trend data show otherwise. Average happiness has increased slightly in rich nations and considerably in the few poor nations for which data are available. Since longevity has also increased, the average number of happy life years has increased at an unprecedented rate since the 1950s.
Keywords
- economic growth
- life satisfaction
- subjective well-being
- happiness
- trend over time
- Easterlin paradox
- social indicator
- cross national
- progress
- quality-of-life
- social progress
- trend in happiness
Automatically Extracted Terms
- happiness
- nation
- veenhoven
- trend
- question
- hagerty
- 1946-2004
- easterlin
- world database
- michael
- response
- growth
- survey
- world
- time series
- wealth
- score
- life years
- gallup
- database
