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.
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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.