In pursuit : of happiness and good government /
Charles Murray.
- 1 online resource (329 pages) : illustration
Reprint edition, originally published in New York by Simon & Schuster, 1988.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-295) and index.
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".