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Economics and Happiness
Framing the Analysis
Edited by Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta
380 pages
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Numerous tables and line drawings
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234x156mm
978-0-19-928628-7
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Hardback
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15 December 2005
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- 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.
Readership: Economists, Sociologists, Psychologists and Philosophers
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Edited by Luigino Bruni, University of Milan-Bicocca, and Pier Luigi Porta, University of Milano-Bicocca Contributors:
Luigino Bruni, University of Milan-Bicocca
Richard A. Easterlin, University of Southern California
Robert H. Frank, Cornell University
Bruno S. Frey, University of Zurich
Richard Layard, London School of Economics
Matt Matravers, University of York
Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago
Luigi Pasinetti, Universita Cattolica S.C., Milano
Charlotte Phelps, Temple University
Pier Luigi Porta, University of
Milan-Bicocca
Bernard M. S. van Praag, University of Amsterdam
Oded Stark, University of Bonn
Alois Stutzer, University of Zurich
Robert Sugden, University of East Anglia
Ruut Veenhoven, Erasmus University Rotterdam
You Qiang Wang, Tsinghua University
Stefano Zamagni, University of Bologna
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Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta: Introduction
1: Richard A. Easterlin: Building a Better Theory of Well-Being
2: Robert H. Frank: Does Absolute Income Matter?
3: Robert Sugden: Correspondence of Sentiments
4: Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer: Testing Theories of Happiness
5: Richard Layard: Rethinking Public Economics
6: Martha C. Nussbaum: Mill Between Aristotle and Bentham
7: Matt Matravers: Happiness and Political Philosophy
8: Bernard M.S. van Praag: The Connection Between Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction
9: Oded Stark and You Qiang Wang: Towards a Theory of Self-Segregation as a Response to Relative Deprivation
10: Ruut Veenhoven: Happiness in Hardship
11: Stefano Zamagni: Happiness and Individualism
12: Charlotte Phelps: The Evolution of Caring
13: Luigi Pasinetti: Paradoxes of Happiness in Economics
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