Overview
- Provides an intuitive definition of happiness and explores several fallacies concerning happiness in a way understandable to the general public
- Combines interdisciplinary (economic, psychological, sociological, evolutionary biology, neuroscience) knowledge to promote happiness at the individual and social levels
- Discusses openly controversial issues like brain stimulation of pleasure centers and the East Asian happiness gap
- Is an open access book
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Yew-Kwang Ng has been Special Chair Professor at the School of Economics, Fudan University, Shanghai, and is Emeritus Professor with Monash University. He is in the Advisory Board of the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford University and was invited to deliver the inaugural Atkinson Memorial Lecture in 2018 at Oxford University. He has received many awards including the top award (Distinguished Fellow) of the Economic Society of Australia in 2007.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Happiness—Concept, Measurement and Promotion
Authors: Yew-Kwang Ng
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4972-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4971-1Published: 04 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4974-2Published: 04 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-4972-8Published: 03 December 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 183
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Employee Health and Wellbeing, Quality of Life Research, Ethics