Happiness in retrospect and prospect

Bruno Frey

Chapter 23 in Handbook on Wellbeing, Happiness and the Environment, 2020, pp 422-430 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Subjective well-being research has produced many valuable insights concerning the determinants of, as well as the consequences on, happiness. It is argued that the causality issue involved should be dealt with in a more pragmatic way than is now the case. Various reasons are proposed why happiness research has only partially been integrated into standard economics. The insights provided by happiness research should be introduced as one element in the democratic political discourse. In future, care should be taken not to swamp the main messages of happiness research by ever more refined and detailed analyses. Various fruitful research topics are suggested; most importantly, the institutional and constitutional ones, the sociological determinants of happiness, as well as the impact of violent political conflict. Future research topics should come from issues in the real world rather than from problems mainly of interest within the research community.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781788119337/9781788119337.00032.xml (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:18339_23

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().