Happiness and Hardship: Opportunity and Insecurity in New Market Economies
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Happiness and Hardship: Opportunity and Insecurity in New Market Economies
By (Author) Carol L. Graham
By (author) Stefano Pettinato
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Brookings Institution
1st December 2001
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
306.30947
Physical Properties
Paperback
190
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
454g
Description
Subjective well being, or happiness, has been analyzed in detail by psychologists for decades. Yet only recently has it become the subject of economic analysis. In Happiness and Hardship, Carol Graham and Stefano Pettinato provide a new conceptual framework for analyzing the relationship between subjective well being and the political sustainability of market-oriented economic growth in 17 Latin American countries and Russia.
Reviews
"Recommended for economics and political science collections." R.S. Rycroft, Mary Washington College, Choice, 9/1/2002
|"[Graham and Pettinato] shed penetrating light on a highly topical question: does one's overall level of subjective satisfaction- 'happiness' determine popular support for economic reform" John Starrels, Senior Public Affairs Officer, IMF External Relations, Finance & Development, 9/1/2002
|"An excellent review of a complex subject..." Richard N. Cooper, Foreign Affairs, 9/1/2002
|"Carol Graham and Stefan Pettinato provide a thorough and illuminating examination of how economic conditions in emerging market countries affect peoples' happiness. In particular, the authors explore how economic mobility, opportunity, and relatively low income levels affect life satisfaction. Graham and Pettinato have much to offer on several levels. First, Happiness and Hardship provides an accessible and thorough introduction to connections between economic conditions and happiness, while breaking new ground by focusing on emerging markets...... overall, this work adds up to a valuable analysis of the determinants of happiness in a small set of less developed countries -- useful knowledge for students, scholars, and policymakers." Adam Resnick, Western Washington University, American Political Science Associatin, Perspectives on Politics
Author Bio
Carol Graham is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program and codirector of the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics at the Brookings Institution. Stefano Pettinato is a senior research analyst at the Brookings Institution.
