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Uncounted or illusory blessings? Competing responses to the Easterlin, Easterbrook and Schwartz paradoxes of well-being

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  • Gasper, D.R., 2006. "Uncounted or illusory blessings? Competing responses to the Easterlin, Easterbrook and Schwartz paradoxes of well-being," ISS Working Papers - General Series 19189, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), The Hague.
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