This volume discusses the determinants of happiness and presents case studies of how public policy can help promote happiness. Happiness is a private matter and individual pursuit, however public policy does have an important role and can contribute much through various enabling means. Possible examples of such influence include establishing a set of institutions that allow private enterprises to flourish, investing in infrastructure and in education, protecting people from harm and reducing risks and alleviating pain when harm is unavoidable. This book takes a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science and an international perspective.
Introduction: Happiness as the Only Ultimate Objective of Public Policy; Y-k.Ng & L.S.Ho
PART 1: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THE STATE OF WELL BEING OF HUMANITY
Quality-of-life in the Modern Society Measured with Happy Life Years; R.Veenhoven
PART 2: DETERMINANTS AND ORIGINS OF HAPPINESS: THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
'The 'Three Happinesses' and Public Policy'; L.S.Ho
Internal and External Determinants of Subjective Well Being: Review and Policy Implications; U.Schimmack
Economics and Happiness Research: Insights from Austrian and Public Choice Economics; C.J.Coyne & P.J.Boettke
PART 3: AREA AND POLICY CASE STUDIES
Do Cigarettes Make Smokers Happier? J.Gruber & S.Mullainathan
Happiness and the Pursuit of a Life Worth Living: An Anthropological Approach; G.Mathews
Psychological Approaches to the Relationship between Happiness and Public Policy in P.R. China; K.Shi, X-l.Wang, R.Zheng, W.Shi, J-f.Lu & H-x.Fan
Happiness and Development: Public Policy Initiatives in the Kingdom of Bhutan; V.K.Shrotyria
An Exploratory Study of Resilience among Hong Kong Employees: Ways to Happiness; O-l.Siu, S.L.Chow, D.R.Phillips & L.Lin
Fun, Fervour or Fitness? Sporting Cultures and Happiness; B.Bridges
PART 4: IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
Public Policy Implications of Behavioural Economics and Happiness Studies; Y-k.Ng
YEW-KWANG NG holds a personal chair at Monash University, Australia, and has been a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia since 1980. He is best known for his work in welfare economics. He has published more than 150 refereed papers in Economics and a dozen in Biology, Mathematics, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology. Books published include Welfare Economics, Mesoeconomics: A Micro-Macro Analysis, Social Welfare and Economic Policy, Specialization and Economic Organization (with X. Yang), Economics and Happiness, Efficiency, Equality, and Public Policy: With a Case for Higher Public Spending and Welfare Economics: Towards a Complete Analysis. He also co-edited Increasing Returns and Economic Analysis with Nobel Laureate K. Arrow and X. Yang.
LOK SANG HO is Professor of Economics at Lingnan University, Hong Kong and author of Principles of Public Policy Practice. He has published 10 books and over 70 academic papers in various journals and book chapters.
Description
This volume discusses the determinants of happiness and presents case studies of how public policy can help promote happiness. Happiness is a private matter and individual pursuit, however public policy does have an important role and can contribute much through various enabling means. Possible examples of such influence include establishing a set of institutions that allow private enterprises to flourish, investing in infrastructure and in education, protecting people from harm and reducing risks and alleviating pain when harm is unavoidable. This book takes a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science and an international perspective.
Contents
Introduction: Happiness as the Only Ultimate Objective of Public Policy; Y-k.Ng & L.S.Ho
PART 1: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THE STATE OF WELL BEING OF HUMANITY
Quality-of-life in the Modern Society Measured with Happy Life Years; R.Veenhoven
PART 2: DETERMINANTS AND ORIGINS OF HAPPINESS: THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
'The 'Three Happinesses' and Public Policy'; L.S.Ho
Internal and External Determinants of Subjective Well Being: Review and Policy Implications; U.Schimmack
Economics and Happiness Research: Insights from Austrian and Public Choice Economics; C.J.Coyne & P.J.Boettke
PART 3: AREA AND POLICY CASE STUDIES
Do Cigarettes Make Smokers Happier? J.Gruber & S.Mullainathan
Happiness and the Pursuit of a Life Worth Living: An Anthropological Approach; G.Mathews
Psychological Approaches to the Relationship between Happiness and Public Policy in P.R. China; K.Shi, X-l.Wang, R.Zheng, W.Shi, J-f.Lu & H-x.Fan
Happiness and Development: Public Policy Initiatives in the Kingdom of Bhutan; V.K.Shrotyria
An Exploratory Study of Resilience among Hong Kong Employees: Ways to Happiness; O-l.Siu, S.L.Chow, D.R.Phillips & L.Lin
Fun, Fervour or Fitness? Sporting Cultures and Happiness; B.Bridges
PART 4: IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
Public Policy Implications of Behavioural Economics and Happiness Studies; Y-k.Ng
Authors
YEW-KWANG NG holds a personal chair at Monash University, Australia, and has been a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia since 1980. He is best known for his work in welfare economics. He has published more than 150 refereed papers in Economics and a dozen in Biology, Mathematics, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology. Books published include Welfare Economics, Mesoeconomics: A Micro-Macro Analysis, Social Welfare and Economic Policy, Specialization and Economic Organization (with X. Yang), Economics and Happiness, Efficiency, Equality, and Public Policy: With a Case for Higher Public Spending and Welfare Economics: Towards a Complete Analysis. He also co-edited Increasing Returns and Economic Analysis with Nobel Laureate K. Arrow and X. Yang.
LOK SANG HO is Professor of Economics at Lingnan University, Hong Kong and author of Principles of Public Policy Practice. He has published 10 books and over 70 academic papers in various journals and book chapters.
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