The Economics of Happiness

Masao Ogaki and Saori C. Tanaka ()
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Saori C. Tanaka: ATR Brain Information Communication Research Laboratory Group

Chapter Chapter 10 in Behavioral Economics, 2017, pp 173-184 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In the economics of happinessEconomics of happiness , three different concepts of happiness have been used: emotional happinessEmotional happiness , life satisfactionLife satisfaction , and eudaimoniaEudaimonia . Many economists outside this field are concerned about whether or not meaningful interpersonal comparisons of happiness are possible. When we compare results from empirical research with and without interpersonal comparisons, many results are robust while some results are not. Unless we think that all robust results across two types of research are coincidental, the robustness suggests that interpersonal comparisons must be possible at least under some conditions.

Keywords: Subjective well-being; Emotional happiness; Life satisfaction; Eudaimonia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-6439-5_10

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