Economics and Happiness
Framing the Analysis
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 December 2005
- ISBN 9780199286287
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 242x163x26 mm
- Weight 720 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Numerous tables and line drawings 0
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Short description:
This volume 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 allowing for a critical understanding of happiness studies and its relationship with economics. While the economic perspective is central, the focus here is on economics and happiness rather than the economics of happiness.
MoreLong description:
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 and partly 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 thoroughly explored 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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Building a Better Theory of Well-Being
Does Absolute Income Matter?
Correspondence of Sentiments
Testing Theories of Happiness
Rethinking Public Economics
Mill Between Aristotle and Bentham
Happiness and Political Philosophy
The Connection Between Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction
Towards a Theory of Self-Segregation as a Response to Relative Deprivation
Happiness in Hardship
Happiness and Individualism
The Evolution of Caring
Paradoxes of Happiness in Economics
