Happiness for All: Unequal Hopes and Lives in Pursuit of the American Dream
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Happiness for All: Unequal Hopes and Lives in Pursuit of the American Dream
By (Author) Carol Graham
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
6th June 2017
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social, group or collective psychology
Behavioural economics
321.02
Physical Properties
Hardback
208
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
482g
Description
How the optimism gap between rich and poor is creating an increasingly divided society The Declaration of Independence states that all people are endowed with certain unalienable rights, and that among these is the pursuit of happiness. But is happiness available equally to everyone in America today How about elsewhere in the world Carol Graham
Reviews
"A persuasive and well-supported study. Highly recommended."--Karen Shook, Times Higher Education "Graham is one of the few scholars who have traced the effects of a dramatic increase in inequality between the rich and poor in America."--Ana Swanson, WashingtonPost.com's Wonkblog "Graham pushes the wellbeing date into a more fruitful area, to assess how the experience of inequality shapes the views Americans hold about the future and the value of hard work... She pierces the myth that inequality is accepted in the US because it is accompanied by so many success stories."--Geoff Dyer, Financial Times
Author Bio
Carol Graham is the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and College Park Professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy. Her books include The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being and Happiness around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires.
