Pursuing happiness: the politics of surviving well together

Title: Pursuing happiness: the politics of surviving well together
Creator: Gibson-Graham, J. K.; Cameron, Jenny; Healy, Stephen
Relation: On Happiness: New Ideas for the Twenty-First Century p. 116-131
Relation: http://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/on-happiness-new-ideas-for-the-twenty-first-century
Publisher: UWA Publishing
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2015
Description: Until recently, it has been widely assumed that economic measures such as Gross Domestic Product and Gross National Product gauge not just the economic well-being of nationals but the subject well-being - the happiness - of their citizens. However, over the last forty years this assumption has been unravelling as studies investigate the empirical link between economic development and happiness. In 1974, Richard Easterlin compared data from countries across the globe and his findings have become known as the Easterlin paradox: within countries, those on higher incomes are happier than those on lower incomes; however, when comparisons are made between countries there is litter difference in levels of happiness between richer and poorer countries, and as countries get ricker levels of happiness doe not necessarily increase.
Subject: happiness; gross domestic product; gross national product; wealth
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1316304
Identifier: uon:23130
Identifier: ISBN:9781742586076
Language: eng

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