Gaël Brulé - Böcker

This volume examines the impact of wealth on quality of life and subjective well-being (SWB). Through the availability of wealth data in recent international surveys, this volume explores the multiple relations between wealth and SWB.

The authors state that notwithstanding the indisputable positive contributions of innovation and technology, there are also drawbacks, which need equal attention in research.This book is of interest to students and researchers of quality of life and well-being, as well as innovation research.

This volume analyses the quantification of the effect of factors measuring subjective well-being, and in particular on the metrics applied. With happiness studies flourishing over the last decades, both in number of publications as well as in their exposure, researchers working in this field are aware of potential weaknesses and pitfalls of these metrics. Contributors to this volume reflect on different factors influencing quantification, such as scale size, wording, language, biases, and cultural comparability in order to raise awareness on the tools and on their conditions of use.