The Pope of Happiness: A Festschrift for Ruut Veenhoven (Hardcover, 2021)

Ruut Veenhoven’s Livability Concept and Children’s Happiness Around the Globe (Sergiu Baltatescu).- Pursuing Happiness on the Road Less Traveled (Ad Bergsma).- Have the Dutch Become Happier? And What about the Dutch ‘Happiness Professor’, Ruut Veenhoven? (Jeroen Boelhouwer).-  The Forgotten Dimensions of Social Capital: Evidence from Quality of Life Studies (Gael Brule).-   Urban-Rural Happiness Differentials in the Netherlands (Martijn Burger).- Happiness or Life Satisfaction? The Case of Children (Ferran Casas and Monica Gonzalez).- Ruut Veenhoven: Worthy Recipient of the Golden Triangle of Happiness (Robert A. Cummins).- Our Fearless Leader (Edward F. Diener).- Your Happiness Comrade-in-Arms (Richard A. Easterlin).- Il Maestro of Happiness (Richard J. Estes).- On the Scientific Study of Happiness (Carol Graham).- The Social Democratic Agenda: The Impact of Scandinavian Social Democratic Regimes on Income Equality, Economic Security, Gender Equality, Levels and Inequality of Life Satisfaction (Bruce W. Headey and Ruud Muffels).- Organizations with Virtuous Leaders Flourish More (Martijn Hendriks).- Moving Beyond the GDP: Emerging Measures and Findings (Mohsen Joshanloo).- Zest and Adventures in Happiness Research (Anna Lau).- Ruut Veenhoven: A very Wise Man (Kai Ludwigs).- Unhappiness, Life-Dissatisfaction and Economic Deprivation in the Philippines: Three Decades of Survey History (Mahar Mangahas).- Good Societies, Financial Inequality and Secrecy, and a Good Life: From Aristotle To Piketty (Alex C. Michalos).- Hambakahle, ‘Go Well’, from Africa (Valerie Møller).- The Good Life Under Attack ? Reflections on the Future of  the Quality of Life Concept (Heinz-Herbert Noll).- Contentment and Affect in the Assessment of Life Satisfaction: More Empirical Findings and New Questions (Mariano Rojas).- A Happiness Path Taken Together (Peggy Schyns).- What Makes Chinese People Happy? Insights from a Traditional Chinese Essay and a Hong Kong Cantopop (Daniel T.L. Shek).- Calling for Social Support: Whose Support and What Types of Support Matter for Early Adolescents’ Life Satisfaction (Kimberly G. Sitter, E. Scott Huebner, and Kimberly J. Hills).- The Relation Between Happiness and Public Policies: The Opinion of University Students (Graciela Tonon).- Prospective Well-Being, Relative Income and Tolerance of Inequality in Japan (Ming-Chang Tsai).- A Passion for Happiness: Ruut Veenhoven, Eudaimonia and the Good Life (Joarvitterso).- Wellbeing and the Four Qualities of Life (Dan Weijers).- Ruut Veenhoven and the Latin-American Paradox of Happiness (Eduardo Wills-Herrera).- A Critique of the Conventional Methods of Survey Item Transformations, with an Eye to Quantification (Bruno D. Zumbo and Pamela Woitschach).- Photographs to Remember (Alex C. Michalos).