Happiness: Lessons from a New Science

Title: Happiness: Lessons from a New Science Author: Layard, Richard ISBN: 9781594200397 Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The Published: 2005 Binding: Book Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders. Psychology 1305119 Publisher Description: There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not speculation: It's 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. The central question the great economist Richard Layard asks in "Happiness" is this: If we really wa