| Description | | - Includes the work of leaders in the field of economics and happiness
- Interdisciplinary text that will appeal to economists, sociologists and psychologists alike
| 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.
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Readership: Economists, Sociologists, Psychologists and Philosophers
| Contents |
Introduction
,
Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta
1.
Correspondence of Sentiments: an explanation of the pleasure of social interaction
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Robert Sugden
2.
Economics and Happiness
,
Luigi Pasinetti
3.
The Connexion Between and Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction
,
Bernard M. S. van Praag
4.
Does Absolute Income Matter?
,
Robert H. Frank
5.
Testing Theories of Happiness
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Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer
6.
Rethinking Public Economics: The implications of rivalry and habit
,
Richard Layard
7.
Mill Between Aristotle and Bentham
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Martha C. Nussbaum
8.
Happiness and Political Philosophy: The case of Nancy Mitford versus Evelyn Waugh
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Matt Matravers
9.
Towards a Theory of Self-Segregation as a Response to Relative Deprivation
,
Oded Stark and You Qiang Wang
10.
Happiness in Hardship
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Ruut Veenhoven
11.
Happiness and Individualism
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Stefano Zamagni
12.
The Evolution of Caring
,
Charlotte Phelps
13.
Building a Better Theory of Well-being
,
Richard A. Easterlin
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Luigino Bruni, University of Milano-Bicocca and
Pier Luigi Porta, University of Milano-Bicocca
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