Happiness and public policy: theory, case studies and implications/ 
edited by Yew-Kwang Ng and Lok Sang Ho 
 - New York:  Palgrave Macmillan,  2006. 
 - 260 p. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : Happiness as the only ultimate objective of public policy / Yew-Kwang Ng and Lok Sang Ho --<br/>Quality-of-life in the modern society measured with happy life years / Ruut Veenhoven --<br/>"The 'three happinesses' and public policy" / Lok Sang Ho --<br/>Internal and external determinants of subjective well-being : review and policy implications / Ulrich Schimmack --<br/>Economics and happiness research : insights from Austrian and public choice economics / Christopher J. Coyne and Peter J. Boettke --<br/>Do cigarette taxes make smokers happier? / Jonathan Gruber and Sendhil Mullainathan --<br/>Happiness and the pursuit of a life worth living : an anthropological approach / Gordon Mathews --<br/>Psychological approaches to the relationship between happiness and public policy in P.R. China / Kan Shi [and others] --<br/>Happiness and development : public policy initiatives in the kingdom of Bhutan / Vijay Kumar Shrotryia --<br/>An exploratory study of resilience among Hong Kong employees : ways to happiness / Oi-ling Siu [and others] --<br/>Fun, fervour or fitness? Sporting cultures and happiness / Brian Bridges --<br/>Public policy implications of behavioural economics and happiness studies / Yew-Kwang Ng 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0230004970 9780230004979 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political planning--Case studies<br/>Happiness--Case studies
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320  / NG/H