Economics and happiness : framing the analysis /

'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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bruni, Luigino, 1966-, Porta, Pier Luigi
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.