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Happiness Lessons from a New Science

Paperback • 2006 • English • 2. edition

Happiness Lessons from a New Science

By P. Richard G. Layard, Richard Layard

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

In this landmark book, Richard Layard shows that there is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income. Yet as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not just anecdotally true, it is the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence shows that on average people have grown no happier in the last fifty years, even as average incomes have more than doubled. In f...Show more

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ISBN

9780141016900

Publisher

Penguin Books

Published year

2006

Language

English

Edition

2

Original title

Happiness Lessons from a New Science

Format

Paperback

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