Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Happiness and Quality of Life

Economists merge subjective and objective dimensions and indicators of well-being, with a special emphasis on methodology in indicators, on the history of ideas, and on the relational and eudaimonian dimensions of human well-being. Looking in turn at quality of life and happiness, they consider such topics as linking happiness to health: comparisons between hedonic and eudaimonic well-being, indicators of happiness versus quality of happiness: methodology and theory, quality of life studies and positive psychology, culture and fine arts: open-ended choices and the formation of interest, and the idea of happiness in Italy. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Edited by Luigino Bruni, Professor of Economics, LUMSA University, Rome, Italy and the late Pier Luigi Porta, formerly Professor of Economics, University Milano-Bicocca, Italy