In pursuit [electronic resource] : of happiness and good government / Charles Murray.
Material type: TextPublication details: Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, Inc., 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 306 pages :) illustrationISBN:- 9781614879084
- 1614879087
- 361.6/10973 23
- HN65 .M87 2013
Reprint edition, originally published in New York by Simon & Schuster, 1988.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-295) and index.
Measuring success in social policy -- Coming to terms with happiness -- Enabling conditions and thresholds -- Material resources -- Safety -- Dignity, self-esteem, and self-respect -- Enjoyment, self-actualization, and intrinsic rewards -- Policy and an idea of man -- Asking a new question, getting new answers: evaluating results -- Asking a new question, getting new answers: designing solutions -- Searching for solutions that work: changing the metaphor -- Little platoons -- "To close the circle of our felicities".
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