caa a22 4500 467917388 CHVBK 20180406152906.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11205-005-5074-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11205-005-5074-x Rising Happiness in Nations 1946-2004: A Reply to Easterlin [Elektronische Daten] [Ruut Veenhoven, Michael Hagerty] The ‘Easterlin paradox' holds that economic growth does not add to the quality-of-life and that this appears in the fact that average happiness in nations has not risen in the last few decades. The latest trend data show otherwise. Average happiness has increased slightly in rich nations and considerably in the few poor nations for which data are available. Since longevity has also increased, the average number of happy life years has increased at an unprecedented rate since the 1950s. Springer, 2006 economic growth nationallicence progress nationallicence quality-of-life nationallicence trend in happiness nationallicence cross national nationallicence Veenhoven Ruut Erasmus University Rotterdam, POB 1738, 3000DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut Hagerty Michael Erasmus University Rotterdam, POB 1738, 3000DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 79/3(2006-12-01), 421-436 0303-8300 79:3<421 2006 79 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-5074-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-5074-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Veenhoven Ruut Erasmus University Rotterdam, POB 1738, 3000DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hagerty Michael Erasmus University Rotterdam, POB 1738, 3000DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 79/3(2006-12-01), 421-436 0303-8300 79:3<421 2006 79 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer