This paper analyses whether the aggregation of individual happiness scores to a National Happiness Index can still be trusted once governments have proclaimed their main objective to be the pursuit - or even maximization - of this National ...
" This book is not essentially a scientific treatise on happiness, but it presents a "new" narrative that will engage individuals in the fields of psychology, sociology, and other social science disciplines.
In this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these data will likely be replaced by the U-index. I find that first, that there are many similarities.