Economics and Happiness : Framing the Analysis Hardback
Edited by Luigino (University of Milan-Bicocca) Bruni, Pier Luigi (University of Milano-Bicocca) Porta
Hardback
Description
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.
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:384 pages, Numerous tables and line drawings
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:15/12/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199286287
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:384 pages, Numerous tables and line drawings
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:15/12/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199286287
