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Author Murray, Charles A.

Title In pursuit : of happiness and good government / Charles Murray.

Publication Info. Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (329 pages) : illustration
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Note Reprint edition, originally published in New York by Simon & Schuster, 1988.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-295) and index.
Contents 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".
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Happiness.
United States -- Social policy -- 1980-1993.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Murray, Charles A. In pursuit : of happiness and good government. Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, 2013 xvi, 306 pages : illustration ; 23 cm 9780865978430 (DLC) 2012038774
ISBN 9780865978430
9781614879084 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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