Journal of Happiness Studies

April 2018, Volume 19, Issue 4, pp 1241–1245 | Cite as

Does Money Make Us Happy? The Prospects and Problems of Happiness Research in Economics

Joachim Weimann, Andreas Knabe, and Ronnie Schöb: Measuring Happiness: The Economics of Well-Being, MIT Press, 2015, 212 pp, $27.95, ISBN: 9780262028448

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First Online: 23 February 2017

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1. 1.Southern New Hampshire UniversityHooksettUSA