William Stanley Jevons and Francis Ysidro Edgeworth: Two Pioneers of Happiness Economics

William Stanley Jevons y Francis Ysidro Edgeworth: dos pioneros de la Economía de la Felicidad

Miren Maite Ansa Eceiza () and Francisco Gómez García
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Miren Maite Ansa Eceiza: Universidad del País Vasco.
Francisco Gómez García: Universidad de Sevilla.

Iberian Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2019, vol. 6, issue 2, 175-187

Abstract: This paper opens up with some issues which are fundamentally relevant to how Happiness Economics studies are presently conducted, and then sets out to show that for prominent neoclassical authors W. S. Jevons and F. Y. Edgeworth the object of Economics was to maximise happiness and that, in this, they coincide with current economists working in this research area. We show that the interest in happiness is not new but leans on a significant economic tradition linked to the Utilitarian philosophy that dates to the second half of the 19th century.

Keywords: Happiness; Economics of happiness; Neoclassical economics; Utilitarian philosophy.; Felicidad; Economía de la felicidad; Economía neoclásica; Filosofía utilitaria. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B13 B41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.5209/ijhe.66195

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