Happiness

Happiness is based upon individuals#xE2;#xAC;" subjective understanding of their individual situation. Knowing why is important for forming policies in modern societies. The book is crossing different disciplines in social science and how they understand and use the concept of happiness. Furthermore, the book integrates how one can theoretical understand this concept and how this can add to our knowledge of central aspects of modern society ranging from question related to welfare state analysis to everyday life for individual people. By emphasizing the different connotation and use of the concept the book will add to the understanding of modern societies, and will give the reader an up-to-date presentation of a concept now widely used in economics, sociology, psychology and political science. The book further probes into the relation between happiness and public policy, and, also presents new evidence of how happiness and core societal aspects are related.