2006-12-01
Rising happiness in nations,1946-2004. A reply to Easterlin
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Social Indicators Research: an international and interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement , Volume 79 - Issue 3 p. 421- 436
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.
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| doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-5074-x, hdl.handle.net/1765/16435 | |
| Social Indicators Research: an international and interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement | |
| Organisation | Department of Sociology |
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Veenhoven, R. (2006). Rising happiness in nations,1946-2004. A reply to Easterlin. Social Indicators Research: an international and interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement, 79(3), 421–436. doi:10.1007/s11205-005-5074-x |
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