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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Economics and happiness. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 (OCoLC)61756576 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Luigino Bruni; Pier Luigi Porta |
ISBN: | 1423757300 9781423757306 0199286280 9780199286287 0191536709 9780191536700 9780191603006 0191603007 |
OCLC Number: | 64638539 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 366 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | 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. |
Responsibility: | [edited by] Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta. |
Abstract:
Provides an overview of happiness in Economics. The essays collected in this book provide an assessment of the field, moving from the so-called paradoxes of happiness in Economics. The meaning of happiness is explored and the tension between a hedonic-subjective idea of happiness and an eudaimonic-objective one is discussed.
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