Economics, wealth and happiness in historical perspective

Luigino Bruni ()

Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2015, vol. 123, issue 1, 41-56

Abstract: The paper claims that the ‘‘happiness transformation problem’’, i.e. how wealth becomes wellbeing, was a central point in some streams of the economic tradition. In particular, the author shows that from Malthus to Pigou this economic tradition paid special attention to non-economic domains important for human happiness and that are affected by market choices. Marshall is seen as the bridge between the classical reflection on happiness in the eighteenth century and the recent debates on the ‘‘paradoxes of happiness’’, an issue that is becoming more and more important, not only in moral philosophy, but also in economics and for relevant policy implications.

Keywords: Happiness; Well-being; Cambridge tradition; Civil Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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