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Happiness for All?: Unequal Hopes and Lives in Pursuit of the American Dream
Carol Graham
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Description for Happiness for All?: Unequal Hopes and Lives in Pursuit of the American Dream
Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 20 line illus. 12 tables. BIC Classification: JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 457.
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 draws on cutting-edge research linking income inequality with well-being to show how the widening prosperity gap has led to rising inequality in people's beliefs, hopes, and aspirations. For the United States and other developed countries, the high costs of being poor are most ... Read more
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 draws on cutting-edge research linking income inequality with well-being to show how the widening prosperity gap has led to rising inequality in people's beliefs, hopes, and aspirations. For the United States and other developed countries, the high costs of being poor are most ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691169460
SKU
V9780691169460
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Ref
99-21
About Carol Graham
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.
Reviews for Happiness for All?: Unequal Hopes and Lives in Pursuit of the American Dream
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more