The economics of happiness: Insights into gross national happiness in Bhutan

Choiden, Sonam (2016) The economics of happiness: Insights into gross national happiness in Bhutan. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology.

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This thesis about the economics of happiness and the Gross National Happiness of Bhutan offers a new extended model of happiness that better explains Bhutanese happiness. The thesis extends the standarf model by incorporating seven of the nine GNH Domains: Health; Education; Good Governance; Culture; Community Vitality; Ecological Resilience, and; Psychological Wellbeing. As a third contribution, the thesis looks at the effects, of state ownership vs privatisation of large public companies, on employee well-being.

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ID Code: 93596
Item Type: QUT Thesis (PhD)
Supervisor: Dulleck, Uwe & Sarkar, Dipanwita
Keywords: Economics of Happiness, Gross National Happiness, Individual Happiness, Extended model of happiness, GNH concepts and measures, Workplace happiness, Life satisfaction of employees, Wealth index, Insights from GNH, Happiness
DOI: 10.5204/thesis.eprints.93596
Divisions: Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > QUT Business School
Current > Schools > School of Economics & Finance
Institution: Queensland University of Technology
Deposited On: 18 Sep 2020 02:41
Last Modified: 08 Oct 2020 14:00