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|a Intro -- Preface -- References -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 What is Happiness? Why is Happiness Important? -- 1.1 What is Happiness? -- 1.2 Why is Happiness Important? -- References -- 2 Happiness Versus Preference -- References -- 3 Some Conceptual Mistakes About Happiness -- 3.1 Why Do We Have Happiness? -- 3.2 Common Mistakes About Happiness -- References -- 4 Happiness or Life Satisfaction? -- References -- 5 Happiness as the Only Intrinsic Value -- 5.1 Happiness as the Only Intrinsic Value -- 5.2 Answering Some Objections -- 5.3 Rejecting Kant's Categorical Imperatives -- 5.4 A Critique of Rawls -- References -- 6 Happiness Measurability and Interpersonal Comparability -- 6.1 Happiness is Cardinally Measurable and Interpersonally Comparable -- 6.2 How Could the Measurement of Happiness be Improved? -- References -- 7 Does Money Buy Happiness? -- References -- 8 Environmentally Responsible Happy Nation Index: A Proposed National Success Indicator -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Revising the Measurement of Happy Life Years -- 8.3 Towards an International Acceptable National Success Indicator -- 8.4 Estimating the Environmentally Responsible Happy Nation Index -- 8.5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- 9 Age and Happiness -- 9.1 The U-shape Relation of Age and Happiness -- 9.2 The Delay in Sleep/wake Cycles of Teenagers: Ultimate Reason and Implications -- 9.3 Chapter Appendix. Methodology -- References -- 10 Factors Affecting Happiness -- 10.1 Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs -- 10.2 The Four F's of Happiness -- 10.3 Important Factors at the Social Level -- References -- 11 How Do You Increase Your Happiness? -- References -- 12 Stimulating Our Brains and Transforming Our Selves -- 12.1 Stimulating the Pleasure Centers in Our Brains -- 12.2 Genetic Engineering and Our Own Transformation -- References.
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|a 13 The East-Asian Happiness Gap: Causes and Implications -- 13.1 The East-Asian Happiness Gap -- 13.2 Some Reflections -- 13.2.1 Why Still the Rat-Race for Money? -- 13.2.2 The East Asian Happiness Gap: Its Causes -- 13.3 Some Implications -- References -- 14 Implications for Public Policy -- References -- 15 A Case for Higher Public Spending -- 15.1 Economists Overestimate the Costs of Public Spending -- 15.2 Specific Areas of Deficient Public Spending -- 15.3 Concluding Remarks -- References -- 16 Animal Welfare: Beyond Human Happiness -- References -- Appendix A Resolving Some Moral Philosophical Controversies -- Appendix B Happiness as the Only Intrinsic Value: Further Opposing Arguments Considered -- Appendix C The Necessity of Cardinal Welfare for Rational Agents/Organisms -- Appendix D A Problem in Happiness Measurement -- Appendix E A Solution of the Moral Philosophical Problem of Optimal Population Size -- References.
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