If we all seek happiness, and living a happy life is our ultimate goal, shouldnâ€t happiness be at the center of the development studies, and be the guide of development policy? In a deep, comprehensive and insightful essay Carol Graham tackles these issues with the balance of someone who has extensively studied the topic and knows its promises as well as its limitations and pitfalls. Graham surveys the happiness literature, highlights its main challenges, illustrates the main points with results of her own research, and provides an assessment of the current state of the debate. In this comment I share some thoughts that were motivated by Grahamâ€s arguments and evidence, and illustrate some points with results from my own research.
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10 p.
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En Lin, J. y Paz Sepulveda, C. (eds.) Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics: Development Challenges in a Postcrisis World. The World Bank
