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Layard, Richard

 
9780241952795: Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (Second Edition)
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ISBN 10: 0241952794 ISBN 13: 9780241952795
Editorial: Penguin, 2011

Sinopsis

In this new edition of his 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? Now fully revised and updated to include developments since first publication, Layard answers his critics in what is still the key book in 'happiness studies'.

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Acerca del autor

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.

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Editorial
Penguin
Año de publicación
2011
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0241952794
ISBN 13 
9780241952795
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Número de páginas
384
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ISBN 10:  0143037013 ISBN 13:  9780143037019
Editorial: PENGUIN GROUP, 2006
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