Richard Layard

Happiness

Lessons from a New Science (Second Edition)

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Produktbeschreibung

Shows that there is a paradox at the heart of our lives. This title describes that most people want more income and yet as societies become richer, they do not become happier.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Rev. and upd. ed.
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9780241952795
• ISBN-10: 0241952794
• Artikelnr.: 32280489

Autorenporträt

Richard Layard is founder and former director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He is the author of the ground-breaking Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (2005), which has been published in nineteen languages, and (with David Clark) Thrive: The Power of Psychological Therapies (2014). He is co-editor (with John Helliwell and Jeffrey Sachs) of the annual World Happiness Report, and has been instrumental in the development of improving access to psychological therapies in the UK.