Dr. Parviz Dabir-Alai joins the editorial team of a new Journal

28/11/2011

Dr. Parviz Dabir-Alai (Professor of Economics) has been invited to join the editorial team of the brand new International Journal of Happiness and Development.

A brief description of this journal reads:

IJHD is an interdisciplinary journal that seeks to broaden our understanding of ‘happiness’ and how it may relate to development from economic, political, psychological, or sociological perspectives. The Journal entertains all definitions of happiness, including ‘subjective well-being’ or ‘life satisfaction’ – commonly used terms in economics. It welcomes rigorous and scientific papers that provide theoretical or empirical investigations which improve our understanding of how happiness is generated and in particular how it may relate to development – interpreted at both micro and macro levels.

Dr. Dabir-Alai believes that the purpose of meaningful economic analysis (and especially within the field of development economics) is to identify ways in which choice and opportunity can be extended to ever larger groups of people. With this belief in mind he is looking forward to playing his full part as a member of this new journal's Board of Editors.

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