Social Capital and the Happiness of Nations: The Importance of Trust and Networks for Life Satisfaction in a Cross-National Perspective

摘要: Why are people in some countries much more satisfied with their lives than others? In fact, the national mean life satisfaction scores of 72 this study range from 3.7 to 8.5 on a 10 point scale. This book examines importance social capital for societal well-being highly interesting results. If rich nation increased civic engagements one three memberships average, would rise by same amount as an increase GDP per capita 24,000 US-$. The effects networks and trust, well GDP, unemployment, inflation income equality investigated World Bank Values Survey data including 180,000 respondents Albania Zimbabwe. discusses approaches economics, psychology, political science, biology, anthropology, sociology, featuring thorough exploration theory. Important policy implications result findings: Rich nations have focus improving interpersonal ties between citizens -- paradigm shift is necessary. Moreover, economically emerging need include intensively into strategies. Networks support must be strengthened today improve quality around globe tomorrow.