Change your Actions, Not Your Circumstances: An Experimental Test of the Sustainable Happiness Model

This timely and important book presents a unique study of happiness from both economic and political perspectives. It offers an overview of contemporary research on the emergent field of happiness studies and contains contributions by some of the leading figures in the field.

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