Happiness: Lessons from a New Science Tapa blanda - 2006
de Richard Layard
From the great guru of the interdisciplinary field of happiness studies comes a fascinating statement: happiness, in fact, is a measurable human state. In his new handbook, he examines the keys to achieving happiness and why, on a societal level people have grown wealthier but no happier over the past 30 years.
Resumen
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 wanted to be happier, what would we do differently? First we'd have to see clearly what conditions generate happiness and then bend all our efforts toward producing them. That is what this book is about-the causes of happiness and the means we have to effect it.
Until recently there was too little evidence to give a good answer to this essential question, but, Layard shows us, thanks to the integrated insights of psychology, sociology, applied economics, and other fields, we can now reach some firm conclusions, conclusions that will surprise you. Happiness is an illuminating road map, grounded in hard research, to a better, happier life for us all.
Primera línea
There is a paradox at the heart of our lives.
Detalles
- Título Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
- Autor Richard Layard
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición Reprint
- Páginas 320
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Penguin Books, New York
- Fecha de publicación June 27, 2006
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Annotated, Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143037019 / 0143037013
- Peso 0.55 libras (0.25 kg)
- Dimensiones 7.6 x 5 x 0.9 pulgadas (19.30 x 12.70 x 2.29 cm)
- Época de 18 a UP años
- Cursos 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Happiness
- Dewey Decimal Code 170
Extracto
Where our desire is got without content.
—Lady Macbeth
There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. And yet, as our societies become richer, people get no happier.
This is no old wives’ tale. It is a fact, proven by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have many good ways to measure how happy people are, as I’ll show, and all the evidence tells us that on average people have grown no happier over the last fifty years. At the same time, though, average incomes have more than doubled. This paradox is true for the United States, Britain and Japan.
But aren’t peoples’ lives infinitely more comfortable? Indeed: They have more food, more clothes, more cars, bigger houses, more central heating, more foreign holidays, a shorter working week, nicer work, and, above all, better health. And yet they are not happier. Despite all the efforts of governments, teachers, doctors, and businessmen, human welfare has not improved.
This devastating fact should be the starting point for all discussion of how to improve our lot. It should cause every government to reappraise its objectives and every individual to rethink his or her goals.
One thing is clear: Once subsistence income is guaranteed, making people happier is not easy. If we want people to be happier, we really have to know what conditions generate happiness and how to cultivate them. That is what this book is about—the causes of happiness and the means we have to effect it.
We do not know all the answers, or even half of them. But we have a lot of evidence—enough to rethink government policy and to reappraise our personal choices and philosophy of life.
The main evidence comes from the new psychology of happiness. But neuroscience, sociology, economics, and philosophy all play their part. By bringing them together, we can produce a new vision of how we can live better—both as social beings and in terms of our inner lives.
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