Economics and Happiness - Framing the Analysis (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2005
First published:	February 2006
Editors:	Luigino Bruni • Pier Luigi Porta
Dimensions:	242 x 163 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	384
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-928628-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic theory & philosophy Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Microeconomics > General
LSN:	0-19-928628-0
Barcode:	9780199286287

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