The Economics of Happiness

Edited by Mariano Rojas

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Date: 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-15835-4
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Chapters in this book:

Ch Chapter 1 The Relevance of Richard A. Easterlin’s Groundbreaking Work. A Historical Perspective

Mariano Rojas

Ch Chapter 10 Advertising as a Major Source of Human Dissatisfaction: Cross-National Evidence on One Million Europeans

Chloe Michel, Michelle Sovinsky, Eugenio Proto and Andrew J. Oswald

Ch Chapter 11 What Makes for a Good Job? Evidence Using Subjective Wellbeing Data

Christian Krekel, George Ward and Jan-Emmanuel Neve

Ch Chapter 12 Unhappiness as an Engine of Economic Growth

Stefano Bartolini

Ch Chapter 13 Keynes’ Grandchildren and Easterlin’s Paradox: What Is Keeping Us from Reducing Our Working Hours?

Johannes Hirata

Ch Chapter 14 Using Well-Being Metrics to Assess Social Well-Being and Ill-Being: Lessons from Rising Mortality Rates in the United States

Carol Graham and Sergio Pinto

Ch Chapter 15 When Does Economic Growth Improve Well-Being?

Francesco Sarracino

Ch Chapter 16 The Subjective Well-Being Political Paradox: Evidence from Latin America

Lucía Macchia and Anke C. Plagnol

Ch Chapter 17 Born to Be Mild? Cohort Effects Don’t (Fully) Explain Why Well-Being Is U-Shaped in Age

Andrew Clark

Ch Chapter 18 Happiness Amongst Teens in Australia

Tony Beatton and Paul Frijters

Ch Chapter 19 Do Humans Suffer a Psychological Low in Midlife? Two Approaches (With and Without Controls) in Seven Data Sets

David Blanchflower and Andrew J. Oswald

Ch Chapter 2 Different Versions of the Easterlin Paradox: New Evidence for European Countries

Caspar F. Kaiser and Maarten C. M. Vendrik

Ch Chapter 20 Happiness at Different Ages: The Social Context Matters

John Helliwell, Haifang Huang, Max Norton and Shun Wang

Ch Chapter 3 Lottery Wins and Satisfaction: Overturning Brickman in Modern Longitudinal Data on Germany

Andrew J. Oswald and Rainer Winkelmann

Ch Chapter 4 Relative Income, Subjective Wellbeing and the Easterlin Paradox: Intra- and Inter-national Comparisons

Arthur Grimes and Marc Reinhardt

Ch Chapter 5 Relative Income and Happiness in Latin America: Implications for Inequality Debates

Mariano Rojas

Ch Chapter 6 Does Happiness Improve Welfare Economics a Lot?

Gabriel Leite Mota

Ch Chapter 7 Why the Easterlin Paradox? The Scitovsky Hypothesis

Maurizio Pugno

Ch Chapter 8 Homo Economicus and Happiness: Towards More Sustainable Development

Martin Binder

Ch Chapter 9 Distaste for Inequality? The Role of Risk Aversion

Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Xavier Ramos

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