Economics and happiness
Subtitle: framing the analysis
By: [edited by] Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta.
Contributors: Bruni, Luigino, 1966-; Porta, Pier Luigi.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780199215232
Subjects: Economics -- Psychological aspects; Economics; Happiness; Happiness -- Economic aspects
Description: The set of papers collected in this volume aims to provide an overview of happiness studies to date, with a special emphasis on its relationship with economic thought. This volume discusses the state of the art and the main strands and contributions to the "economics of happiness," as a sub-discipline related to political economy. However, the main thrust of the volume is in focuses on the relationship between happiness studies and economics. Moreover, this volume makes a specific contribution in highlighting the comparative role and influence in the subjectivist approach vis-a-vis the objectivist approach to human happiness in the current literature in the field. The ambition of this book is to present the reader with a conceptual framework for a critical understanding of happiness studies and its relationship with economics. While the economic perspective is central, the focus here is on economics and happiness rather than the economics of happiness.
Notes: Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Richard A. Easterlin; title: Richard A. Easterlin -- Robert H. Frank; title: Richard A. Easterlin -- Robert H. Frank -- Robert Sugden; title: Richard A. Easterlin -- Robert H. Frank -- Robert Sugden -- Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer; title: Richard A. Easterlin -- Robert H. Frank -- Robert Sugden -- Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer -- Richard Layard; title: Richard A. Easterlin -- Robert H. Frank -- Robert Sugden -- Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer -- Richard Layard -- Martha C. Nussbaum; title: Richard A. Easterlin -- Robert H. Frank -- Robert Sugden -- Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer -- Richard Layard -- Martha C. Nussbaum -- Matt Matravers; title: Richard A. Easterlin -- Robert H. Frank -- Robert Sugden -- Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer -- Richard Layard -- Martha C. Nussbaum -- Matt Matravers -- Bernard M.S. van Praag; title: Richard A. Easterlin -- Robert H. Frank -- Robert Sugden -- Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer -- Richard Layard -- Martha C. Nussbaum -- Matt Matravers -- Bernard M.S. van Praag -- Oded Stark and You Qiang Wang; title: Richard A. Easterlin -- Robert H. Frank -- Robert Sugden -- Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer -- Richard Layard -- Martha C. Nussbaum -- Matt Matravers -- Bernard M.S. van Praag -- Oded Stark and You Qiang Wang -- Ruut Veenhoven; title: Richard A. Easterlin -- Robert H. Frank -- Robert Sugden -- Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer -- Richard Layard -- Martha C. Nussbaum -- Matt Matravers -- Bernard M.S. van Praag -- Oded Stark and You Qiang Wang -- Ruut Veenhoven -- Charlotte D. Phelps; title: Richard A. Easterlin -- Robert H. Frank -- Robert Sugden -- Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer -- Richard Layard -- Martha C. Nussbaum -- Matt Matravers -- Bernard M.S. van Praag -- Oded Stark and You Qiang Wang -- Ruut Veenhoven -- Charlotte D. Phelps -- Stefano Zamagni; title: Richard A. Easterlin-- Robert H. Frank-- Robert Sugden-- Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer-- Richard Layard-- Martha C. Nussbaum-- Matt Matravers-- Bernard M.S. van Praag-- Oded Stark and You Qiang Wang-- Ruut Veenhoven-- Charlotte D. Phelps-- Stefano Zamagni-- Luigi Pasinetti.