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Gross National Happiness: The Interdependent Domains of Happiness
The chapter discusses Gross National HappinessGross National Happiness (GNH) (GNH) from its origin and its implication to criticism as a measure. GNH...
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Solving the income-happiness paradox
Easterlin notes a contradiction in the data. While the cross-sectional data set shows that happiness is a positive monotonic function of income, the...
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The Collective Selfie: The Rhetoric of Planetary Happiness in Celebrity Environmental Activism
In ordinary times, people are driven Weiskel by an innate universal human need to feel good about themselves as they try to achieve happiness by...
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“Happiness Under Construction”: A Project in Opposition to the Problem of Obligatory Happiness
Happiness is the ultimate goal of living well and it is, at the same time, the principle of motivation that guides many people’s daily choices....
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The Promises of Empowered Girls
Everyone loves empowered girls – those “can-do” girls who succeed in school, postpone motherhood, have a voice, star in athletics, and believe they...
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Water Projects and the Kurds of Turkey
After the collapse and partition of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I, the Kurds were promised the possibility of an independent state in...
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Happiness Digital Technology and Social Networks
This chapter focuses on the analysis of the impact of new technologies on happiness. Traditionally, studies on the impact of technology on subjective...
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Community Leadership through Conversations and Coordination: the Role of Local Surveys in Community Foundation Run Community Indicators Projects
Community indicators (CI) projects rely on a variety of sources for the data that they make available to measure community well-being. While...
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Blockchain Civitas Dei and Civitas Terrena: Governance Experiments as a Problem of ‘Frontier Epistemology’ and ‘Heuristic Appraisal’
The paper focuses on the philosophical challenges of governance over trustless ledgers, namely Bitcoin Layer 2 solutions in El Salvador. Blockchain...
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Structural Equation Modeling of Determinants of Customer Loyalty: A Case of Franchised Restaurants in Cambodia
Food and beverage business, particularly the restaurant sector, has seen tremendous transformation as a result of rapid economic development, and...
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Persuasive strategies and emotional states: towards designing personalized and emotion-adaptive persuasive systems
Persuasive strategies have been widely operationalized in systems or applications to motivate behaviour change across diverse domains. However, no...
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New Education: Searching for Utopia
In this chapter the authors associate the ideas of the ideal city as a place of happiness for the living, on the basis of the universality of...
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An Introduction to the Concepts and Ideas
This introductory chapter leads the reader gently into the world of happiness and wellbeing, first defining and differentiating these two terms, and...
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ICT, Growth and Happiness
This chapter reviews two strands of literature. The first is on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and growth. The increasing role of...
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Media and Entertainment
The media and entertainment industry is one of the most significant global sectors and one of the first adopters of innovative technological...
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Self-Help and Popular Culture
This chapter explores Brown’s criticism of the self-help industry. Brown argues that the Stoics offer a helpful alternative to the endless...
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Plans, Open Future and the Prospects for a Good Life
How we live our lives depends on how we relate to our past, present and future. The article focusses on the relation to our future. The target of my...
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Normative Ethical Theory and AI Ethics
Normative ethical theories propose frameworks for determining value and for guiding judgment and action. We examine three dominant varieties:...
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The Electoral Promises of Winston Churchill
This chapter explores the electoral pledges that Winston Churchill put before the voters across the course of his career, both as an individual...
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Solid-Modern and Liquid-Modern Utopias: Zygmunt Bauman’s Sociological Contribution to our Understanding of Utopia
Utopia and utopianism have not been a conventional concern among sociologists. In fact, in its incessant quest for scientific recognition, sociology...