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245		0	_aHappiness and public policy: theory, case studies and implications/ _cedited by Yew-Kwang Ng and Lok Sang Ho
260			_aNew York: _bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2006.
300			_a260 p.
505			_aIntroduction : Happiness as the only ultimate objective of public policy / Yew-Kwang Ng and Lok Sang Ho -- Quality-of-life in the modern society measured with happy life years / Ruut Veenhoven -- "The 'three happinesses' and public policy" / Lok Sang Ho -- Internal and external determinants of subjective well-being : review and policy implications / Ulrich Schimmack -- Economics and happiness research : insights from Austrian and public choice economics / Christopher J. Coyne and Peter J. Boettke -- Do cigarette taxes make smokers happier? / Jonathan Gruber and Sendhil Mullainathan -- Happiness and the pursuit of a life worth living : an anthropological approach / Gordon Mathews -- Psychological approaches to the relationship between happiness and public policy in P.R. China / Kan Shi [and others] -- Happiness and development : public policy initiatives in the kingdom of Bhutan / Vijay Kumar Shrotryia -- An exploratory study of resilience among Hong Kong employees : ways to happiness / Oi-ling Siu [and others] -- Fun, fervour or fitness? Sporting cultures and happiness / Brian Bridges -- Public policy implications of behavioural economics and happiness studies / Yew-Kwang Ng
650			_aPolitical planning _xCase studies
650			_aHappiness _xCase studies
700			_aNg, Yew-Kwang, ed.
700			_aHo, Lok Sang, ed.
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