Economics and happiness
Subtitle: framing the analysis
By: [editors], Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780199286287
Subjects: Psychological aspects; Economische aspecten; Economics; Economic aspects; Geluk; Happiness; Tevredenheid
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Building a better theory of well-being / Richard A. Easterlin; title: Does absolute income matter? / Richard H. Frank; title: Correspondence of sentiments: an explanation of the pleasure of social interaction / Robert Sugden; title: Testing theories of happiness / Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer; title: Rethinking public economics: the implications of rivalry and habit / Richard Layard; title: Mill between Aristotle and Bentham / Martha C. Nussbaum; title: Happiness and political philosophy: the case of Nancy Mitford versus Evelyn Waugh / Matt Matravers; title: The connection between the old and new approaches to financial satisfaction / Bernard M.S. van Praag; title: Towards a theory of self-segregation as a response to relative deprivation: steady-state outcomes and social welfare / Oded Stark and You Qiang Wang; title: Happiness in hardship / Ruut Veenhoven; title: The evolution of caring / Charlotte D. Phelps; title: Happiness and individualism: a very difficult union / Stefano Zamagni; title: Paradoxes of happiness in economics / Luigi Pasinetti.