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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
eBook, English, 2005
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005
1 online resource (xii, 366 pages) : illustrations
9781423757306, 9780199286287, 9780191536700, 9780191603006, 1423757300, 0199286280, 0191536709, 0191603007
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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