Economics and Happiness: Framing the Analysis

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Luigino Bruni, Pier Luigi Porta
OUP Oxford, 15 груд. 2005 р. - 366 стор.
This book is the first of its kind to provide a comprehensive overview of happiness in Economics. Although it is comparatively unusual to put happiness and economics together, the association appears increasingly exciting and fruitful. A number of studies have been produced following Richard Easterlins and Tibor Scitovskys pioneering works throughout the 1970s. The essays collected in this book provide an authoritative and comprehensive assessment both theoretical, applied andpartly experimental of the whole field moving from the so-called paradoxes of happiness in Economics. The book breaks new ground, particularly on the more recent directions of research on happiness, well-being, interpersonal relations and reciprocity. The meaning of happiness is thoroughlyexplored and the tension between a hedonic-subjective idea of happiness and a eudaimonic-objective one is discussed.This volume opens with Richard Easterlins own assessment of the main issues. Other authors include Robert H. Frank, Robert Sugden, Bruno S. Frey, Alois Stutzer, Richard Layard, Martha C. Nussbaum, Matt Matravers, Bernard M.S, van Praag, Oded Stark, You Q. Wang, Ruut Veenhoven, Charlotte Phelps, Stefano Zamagni, and Luigi Pasinetti.

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Introduction
1
1 Building a Better Theory of WellBeing
29
2 Does Absolute Income Matter?
65
An Explanation of the Pleasure of Social Interaction
91
4 Testing Theories of Happiness
116
The Implications of Rivalry and Habit
147
6 Mill between Aristotle and Bentham
170
The Case of Nancy Mitford versus Evelyn Waugh
184
8 The Connection between Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction
196
SteadyState Outcomes and Social Welfare
223
10 Happiness in Hardship
243
11 The Evolution of Caring
267
A Very Difficult Union
303
13 Paradoxes of Happiness in Economics
336
Index
345
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