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- 320pagine
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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 fact, the First World has more depression, more alcoholism and more crime than fifty years ago. This paradox is true of Britain, the United States, continental Europe, and Japan. What is going on?
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Happiness, Peter R. G. Layard
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- Pubblicato
- 2005
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- Titolo
- Happiness
- Sottotitolo
- Lessons from a New Science
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Peter R. G. Layard
- Editore
- Penguin Press HC, The
- Pubblicato
- 2005
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 320
- ISBN10
- 1594200394
- ISBN13
- 9781594200397
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Scienze sociali, Commercio, Business & Management, Auto-aiuto, Temi psicologici, Tematica filosofica, Filosofia, Crescita personale, Scienza, Sociologia
- Titolo originale
- The new happiness
- Valutazione
- 3,9 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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 fact, the First World has more depression, more alcoholism and more crime than fifty years ago. This paradox is true of Britain, the United States, continental Europe, and Japan. What is going on?