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Quality-of-Life in the Modern Society Measured with Happy Life Years

In: Happiness and Public Policy

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  • Ruut Veenhoven

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The human species has lived for most of its time in simple hunter-gatherer societies. Agrarian societies developed less than 5000 years ago and it is only in the last 200 years that a “modern” industrial society has come into being. Today this industrial society is rapidly transforming into a global information society.

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  • Ruut Veenhoven, 2006. "Quality-of-Life in the Modern Society Measured with Happy Life Years," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Yew-Kwang Ng & Lok Sang Ho (ed.), Happiness and Public Policy, chapter 2, pages 19-44, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-28802-7_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230288027_2
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    1. Veenhoven, Ruut, 2010. "Capability and happiness: Conceptual difference and reality links," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 39(3), pages 344-350, June.
    2. Jana Coronicova Hurajova & Zuzana Hajduova, 2021. "Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis Using TOPSIS and WSA Method for Quality of Life: The Case of Slovakia Regions," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 9(19), pages 1-11, October.

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