"This intelligent and entertaining book shows how the scientific study of happiness is changing the field of economics--and the world!"--Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology, Harvard University, and author of Stumbling on Happiness
"An adventure to one of the new frontiers of knowledge, this book is a masterful blend of personal experience, contemporary culture, and social science."--Richard Easterlin, professor of economics, University of Southern California
Everybody wants to be happy. But how much happiness will each life choice bring? Should I get married? Am I going to feel good in that new job? Is seeing friends worth more than a Ferrari? How can we decide not only which choice is better for us, but how much better?
The Happiness Equation reveals the cutting-edge new science of happiness economics for the first time and explains, quantifiably, how and why some things matter more to our happiness than others.
Nick Powdthavee is a behavioral economist at the department of economics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
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