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Economics and happiness : framing the analysis / [edited by] Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economics--Psychological aspects.
- Economics.
- Happiness.
- Happiness--Economic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (379 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 n
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1. Building a Better Theory of Well-Being; 2. Does Absolute Income Matter?; 3. Correspondence of Sentiments: An Explanation of the Pleasure of Social Interaction; 4. Testing Theories of Happiness; 5. Rethinking Public Economics: The Implications of Rivalry and Habit; 6. Mill between Aristotle and Bentham; 7. Happiness and Political Philosophy: The Case of Nancy Mitford versus Evelyn Waugh; 8. The Connection between Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction
- 9. Towards a Theory of Self-Segregation as a Response to Relative Deprivation: Steady-State Outcomes and Social Welfare10. Happiness in Hardship; 11. The Evolution of Caring; 12. Happiness and Individualism: A Very Difficult Union; 13. Paradoxes of Happiness in Economics; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-921523-5
- 9786610756094
- 1-4237-5730-0
- 1-280-75609-8
- 0-19-153670-9
- OCLC:
- 726734936
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