Happiness and public choice

Public Choice

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 557-573

  Frey, Bruno S ^a,b   Stutzer, Alois ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CREMA CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Economic policy; Happiness; Life satisfaction; Public choice; Social welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955097013     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-010-9681-y     Document Type: Article

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