Meltem İnce Yenilmez is a Professor of Economics at Izmir Democracy University. She has published monographs, research papers, reports, book chapters, and many articles on Turkey, Europe, Japan and the USA, including co-editing Reconstructing Feminism through Cyberfeminism (Brill, 2024).Gül Huyugüzel Kışla is an Associate Professor of Economics at Ege University. Her primary research interests are macro-finance, labour productivity and currency crises.Eylül Kabakçı Günay is an Associate Professor of Economics at Izmir Democracy University. Her areas of research are economic growth, development economics and international economics, poverty and globalization.

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• Preface viiAcknowledgements ixList of Tables and Figures xiNotes on Contributors xiii1 Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Definition of Happiness:a Global Endeavour 1Burcu Türkcan and Merve Özcan Altan2 Financial Frameworks and Contentment: the Financial Aspectsof Well-Being 18Begüm Yurteri Kösedağlı3 Consumption and Happiness 43Gül Huyugüzel Kışla4 Happiness and Income: Understanding the Complex Relationship 56Meltem İnce Yenilmez5 Life Satisfaction, Happiness, and Contemporary DevelopmentEconomics: Insights from Data and the Discussions on CircularEconomy Policy 70Özge Kozal6 The Relationship between Economic Policy and Happiness: a Crosscutof Public Policy and Well-Being 97Burcu Türkcan7 The Happiness Agenda: Examining the Meeting Point of PoliticalStrategies and Economic Realities 115Eylül Kabakçı Günay8 Political Systems, Stable Democracies and Happiness 133Necmettin Çelik9 Analysis of Economic and Political Policies Affecting the Happiness ofIndividuals: the Example of Turkey 155Gökmen Kantar and Nermin Akarçay10 The Quest for International Peace and Security: Is a Happier WorldPossible through the UN System? 172Arif Bağbaşlıoğlu11 Sociological Understanding of Happiness 185Barış Çağırkan12 Happiness in Working Life: the Role of Psychological Capital 202Ulviye Tüfekçi Yaman13 Harmony in Motion: Examining the Relationship between Happiness,Flow Theory, and Physical Activity 226Gözde Ersöz14 Behind the Global Crises: Ways out of Pandemic and EnvironmentalDisasters for a Sustainable Future 246Hakan YıldırımIndex 259

Meltem İnce Yenilmez is a Professor of Economics at Izmir Democracy University. She has published monographs, research papers, reports, book chapters, and many articles on Turkey, Europe, Japan and the USA, including co-editing Reconstructing Feminism through Cyberfeminism (Brill, 2024).Gül Huyugüzel Kışla is an Associate Professor of Economics at Ege University. Her primary research interests are macro-finance, labour productivity and currency crises.Eylül Kabakçı Günay is an Associate Professor of Economics at Izmir Democracy University. Her areas of research are economic growth, development economics and international economics, poverty and globalization.

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• Preface viiAcknowledgements ixList of Tables and Figures xiNotes on Contributors xiii1 Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Definition of Happiness:a Global Endeavour 1Burcu Türkcan and Merve Özcan Altan2 Financial Frameworks and Contentment: the Financial Aspectsof Well-Being 18Begüm Yurteri Kösedağlı3 Consumption and Happiness 43Gül Huyugüzel Kışla4 Happiness and Income: Understanding the Complex Relationship 56Meltem İnce Yenilmez5 Life Satisfaction, Happiness, and Contemporary DevelopmentEconomics: Insights from Data and the Discussions on CircularEconomy Policy 70Özge Kozal6 The Relationship between Economic Policy and Happiness: a Crosscutof Public Policy and Well-Being 97Burcu Türkcan7 The Happiness Agenda: Examining the Meeting Point of PoliticalStrategies and Economic Realities 115Eylül Kabakçı Günay8 Political Systems, Stable Democracies and Happiness 133Necmettin Çelik9 Analysis of Economic and Political Policies Affecting the Happiness ofIndividuals: the Example of Turkey 155Gökmen Kantar and Nermin Akarçay10 The Quest for International Peace and Security: Is a Happier WorldPossible through the UN System? 172Arif Bağbaşlıoğlu11 Sociological Understanding of Happiness 185Barış Çağırkan12 Happiness in Working Life: the Role of Psychological Capital 202Ulviye Tüfekçi Yaman13 Harmony in Motion: Examining the Relationship between Happiness,Flow Theory, and Physical Activity 226Gözde Ersöz14 Behind the Global Crises: Ways out of Pandemic and EnvironmentalDisasters for a Sustainable Future 246Hakan YıldırımIndex 259

Meltem İnce Yenilmez is a Professor of Economics at Izmir Democracy University. She has published monographs, research papers, reports, book chapters, and many articles on Turkey, Europe, Japan and the USA, including co-editing Reconstructing Feminism through Cyberfeminism (Brill, 2024).Gül Huyugüzel Kışla is an Associate Professor of Economics at Ege University. Her primary research interests are macro-finance, labour productivity and currency crises.Eylül Kabakçı Günay is an Associate Professor of Economics at Izmir Democracy University. Her areas of research are economic growth, development economics and international economics, poverty and globalization.

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• Preface viiAcknowledgements ixList of Tables and Figures xiNotes on Contributors xiii1 Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Definition of Happiness:a Global Endeavour 1Burcu Türkcan and Merve Özcan Altan2 Financial Frameworks and Contentment: the Financial Aspectsof Well-Being 18Begüm Yurteri Kösedağlı3 Consumption and Happiness 43Gül Huyugüzel Kışla4 Happiness and Income: Understanding the Complex Relationship 56Meltem İnce Yenilmez5 Life Satisfaction, Happiness, and Contemporary DevelopmentEconomics: Insights from Data and the Discussions on CircularEconomy Policy 70Özge Kozal6 The Relationship between Economic Policy and Happiness: a Crosscutof Public Policy and Well-Being 97Burcu Türkcan7 The Happiness Agenda: Examining the Meeting Point of PoliticalStrategies and Economic Realities 115Eylül Kabakçı Günay8 Political Systems, Stable Democracies and Happiness 133Necmettin Çelik9 Analysis of Economic and Political Policies Affecting the Happiness ofIndividuals: the Example of Turkey 155Gökmen Kantar and Nermin Akarçay10 The Quest for International Peace and Security: Is a Happier WorldPossible through the UN System? 172Arif Bağbaşlıoğlu11 Sociological Understanding of Happiness 185Barış Çağırkan12 Happiness in Working Life: the Role of Psychological Capital 202Ulviye Tüfekçi Yaman13 Harmony in Motion: Examining the Relationship between Happiness,Flow Theory, and Physical Activity 226Gözde Ersöz14 Behind the Global Crises: Ways out of Pandemic and EnvironmentalDisasters for a Sustainable Future 246Hakan YıldırımIndex 259