Health, Wealth or Wisdom? Religion and the Paradox of Prosperity
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Health, Wealth or Wisdom? Religion and the Paradox of Prosperity1
Th e so-called ‘happiness hypothesis’, associated with the work of the economist Richard Layard, has attracted much public debate over recent years. Its main contention is that despite rising levels of material prosperity in the west, incidence of recorded happiness and greater quality of life has not increased accordingly. In considering the major contributory factors to happiness and well-bei...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Public Theology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1872-5171,1569-7320
DOI: 10.1163/156973209x387280