Should Happiness-Maximization be the Goal of Government?

By G. Duncan. 2010

146 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/6fc2c2d6ac487133ca633c36d49712397107fd80

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Health

1. Philip A. Michelbach
2. A. Goldberg
3. K. Leyden

In Social Psychology

1. Philip A. Michelbach
2. A. Goldberg
3. K. Leyden

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Philip A. Michelbach
2. A. Goldberg
3. K. Leyden
4. Kostas Mouratidis
5. Jeffrey D. Fisher
6. G. Pivo

Citations in the corpus

• Understanding the Pursuit of Happiness in Ten Major Cities (2011, methodology): “Although with no shortage of controversy (Duncan 2008), the findings associated with this research have been used to formulate “happiness policies” aimed at increasing the aggregate level of happiness among people of a given nation (Frey 2008).”