Happiness, Economics and Politics

Edited by Amitava Dutt and Benjamin Radcliff

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This timely and important book presents a unique study of happiness from both economic and political perspectives. It offers an overview of contemporary research on the emergent field of happiness studies and contains contributions by some of the leading figures in the field.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
ISBN: 9781848440937
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 The History of Happiness and Contemporary Happiness Studies

Darrin M. McMahon

Ch 2 On the Measurement and Mismeasurement of Happiness: Contemporary Theories and Methodological Directions

Anthony D. Ong

Ch 3 How Do We Assess How Happy We Are? Tenets, Implications and Tenability of Three Theories

Ruut Veenhoven

Ch 4 Happiness and Domain Satisfaction: New Directions for the Economics of Happiness

Richard Easterlin and Onnicha Sawangfa

Ch 5 Happiness when Temptation Overwhelms Willpower

Alois Stutzer

Ch 6 Happiness and the Relative Consumption Hypothesis

Amitava Dutt

Ch 7 The Easterlin Paradox Revisited

Robert H. Frank

Ch 8 Does Inequality Matter to Individual Welfare? An Initial Exploration Based on Happiness Surveys from Latin America

Carol Graham and Andrew Felton

Ch 9 Perceptions of Discrimination, Effort to Obtain Psychological Balance and Relative Wages: Can we Infer a Happiness Gradient?

Arthur Goldsmith

Ch 10 Politics and Happiness: An Empirical Ledger

Alexander C. Pacek

Ch 11 Democracy and Happiness: What Causes What?

Ronald Inglehart

Ch 12 The Causal Link between Happiness and Democratic Welfare Regimes

Charlotte Ridge, Tom Rice and Matthew Cherry

Ch 13 Labor Organization and the Quality of Life in the American States

Suzanne M. Coshow and Benjamin Radcliff

Ch 14 Should National Happiness be Maximized?

Bruno Frey and Alois Stutzer

Ch 15 Change your Actions, Not Your Circumstances: An Experimental Test of the Sustainable Happiness Model

Kennon M. Sheldon and Sonja Lyubomirsky

Ch 16 What is to be Done? Toward a ‘Happier’ World

Amitava Dutt and Benjamin Radcliff

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