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'Economics and Happiness' provides an overview of happiness studies to date, with a special emphasis on its relationship with economic thought. The book presents the reader with a conceptual framework for a critical understanding of happiness studies and its relationship with economics.
Building a better theory of well-being / Richard A. Easterlin -- Does absolute income matter? / Richard H. Frank -- Correspondence of sentiments: an explanation of the pleasure of social interaction / Robert Sugden -- Testing theories of happiness / Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer -- Rethinking public economics: the implications of rivalry and habit / Richard Layard -- Mill between Aristotle and Bentham / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Happiness and political philosophy: the case of Nancy Mitford versus Evelyn Waugh / Matt Matravers -- The connection between the old and new approaches to financial satisfaction / Bernard M.S. van Praag -- Towards a theory of self-segregation as a response to relative deprivation: steady-state outcomes and social welfare / Oded Stark and You Qiang Wang -- Happiness in hardship / Ruut Veenhoven -- The evolution of caring / Charlotte D. Phelps -- Happiness and individualism: a very difficult union / Stefano Zamagni -- Paradoxes of happiness in economics / Luigi Pasinetti.
[edited by] Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005