What About a Happiness Pill?

Bruno Frey

Chapter Chapter 8 in Economics of Happiness, 2018, pp 41-46 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Happiness pills provided by the government free of charge would have several positive, but also negative consequences. The procedural aspects of happiness are important and should not be neglected. Politicians may have an incentive to keep the population quiet by offering them happiness pills for free. But this may backfire if citizens are then induced to engage more strongly in political activities against the wishes of politicians. It is illusory to expect that happiness pills are able to raise people’s well-being over an extended period of time.

Keywords: Happiness pill; Prozac; Brain doping; Procedural happiness; Effort; Politicians; Soma; Bio-happiness; Illegal drugs; Happiness paradox (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75807-7_8

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