Happiness economics: A new road to measuring and comparing happiness

Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-97

  Van Praag, Bernard M S ^a   Ferrer I Carbonell, Ada ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

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EID: 79959225512     PISSN: 15479846     EISSN: 15479854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1561/0700000026     Document Type: Article

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