Handbook on the Economics of Happiness

Edited by Luigino Bruni (l.bruni@lumsa.it) and Pier Luigi Porta

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Abstract: This book is a welcome consolidation and extension of the recent expanding debates on happiness and economics. Happiness and economics, as a new field for research, is now of pivotal interest particularly to welfare economists and psychologists. This Handbook provides an unprecedented forum for discussion of the economic issues relating to happiness. It reviews the more recent literature and offers the interested reader an insight into the vast scope of the field in terms of the theory, its applications and also experimental design. The Handbook also gives substantial indications as to the future direction of research in the field, with particular regard to policy applications and developing an economics of interpersonal relations which includes reciprocity and social interaction theory.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
ISBN: 9781843768265
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Happiness, Wealth and Utility in Ancient Thought

Gloria Vivenza

Ch 2 The ‘Technology of Happiness’ and the Tradition of Economic Science

Luigino Bruni

Ch 3 Human Needs Hierarchy and Happiness: Evidence from the Late Pre-Classical and Classical Economics

Stavros Drakopoulos and Anastassios Karayiannis

Ch 4 Jeremy Bentham’s Quantitative Analysis of Happiness and its Asymmetries

Marco Guidi

Ch 5 Public Happiness and Civil Society

Pier Luigi Porta and Roberto Scazzieri

Ch 6 Kant on Civilization, Moralization and the Paradox of Happiness

Sergio Cremaschi

Ch 7 If Happiness is so Important, Why Do We Know So Little About It?

Marina Bianchi

Ch 8 Well-being and Consumption: Towards a Theoretical Approach Based on Human Need Satisfaction

Monica Guillen Royo

Ch 9 Enjoyment of Life, the Structure of Time and Economic Dynamics

Mario Cogoy

Ch 10 Experienced Versus Decision Utility of Income: Relative or Absolute Happiness

Maarten Vendrik and Johannes Hirata

Ch 11 Past Product Experiences as Determinants of Happiness with Target Product Experiences: Implications for Subjective Well-being

Rajagopal Raghunathan and Julie R. Irwin

Ch 12 The Life Plan View of Happiness and the Paradoxes of Happiness

Mark Chekola

Ch 13 The Income–Unhappiness Paradox: A Relational Goods/Baumol Disease Explanation

Leonardo Becchetti and Marika Santoro

Ch 14 The Subjective Well-being Paradox: A Suggested Solution Based on Relational Goods

Maurizio Pugno

Ch 15 The Not-So-Fragile Fragility of Goodness: The Responsive Quality of Fiduciary Relationships

Vittorio Pelligra

Ch 16 Happiness, Morality and Game Theory

Luca Zarri

Ch 17 Why are People so Unhappy? Why do They Strive so Hard for Money? Competing Explanations of the Broken Promises of Economic Growth

Stefano Bartolini

Ch 18 On the Demand for Grandchildren: Tied Transfers and the Demonstration Effect

Donald Cox and Oded Stark

Ch 19 Values and Happiness in Mexico: The Case of the Metropolitan City of Monterrey

Jose de Jesus Garcia, Nicole Christa Fuentes, Salvador A. Borrego, Alejandro Tapia and Monica D. Gutierrez

Ch 20 Happiness, Satisfaction and Socioeconomic Conditions: Some International Evidence

Amado Peiró

Ch 21 Happiness and the Standard of Living: The Case of South Africa

Nattavudh Powdthavee

Ch 22 Federalism Versus Social Citizenship: Investigating the Preference for Equity in Health Care

Luca Crivelli, Gianfranco Domenighetti and Massimo Filippini

Ch 23 Happiness and Sustainability: A Modern Paradox

Silva Marzetti Dall'Aste Brandolini

Ch 24 Ideals, Conformism and Reciprocity: A Model of Individual Choice with Conformist Motivations, and an Application to the Not-for-Profit Case

Lorenzo Sacconi and Gianluca Grimalda

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