Handbook on the economics of happiness
- ISBN: 9781843768265
- Editorial: Edward Elgal Publishing Limited
- Fecha de la edición: 2007
- Lugar de la edición: Cheltenham. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 591
- Idiomas: Inglés
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. Reflecting the contribution of a major research activity on the study of happiness, economics and interpersonal relations, this book will be of great interest to economists and psychologists in general, as well as welfare economists and postgraduate scholars of cooperation, welfare, social planning, non-profit, corporate social responsibility and related fields.
List of contributors
viii
Introduction xi
Luigino Bruni
Pier Luigi Porta
PART I LESSONS FROM THE PAST
Happiness, wealth and utility in ancient thought
3 (21)
Gloria Vivenza
The `technology of happiness' and the tradition of economic science
24 (29)
Luigino Bruni
Human needs hierarchy and happiness: evidence from the late pre-classical and classical economics
53 (15)
Stravos Drakopoulos
Anastasios Karayiannis
Jeremy Bentham's quantitative analysis of happiness and its asymmetries
68 (27)
Marco E.L. Guidi
Public happiness and civil society
95 (15)
Pier Luigi Porta
Roberto Scazzieri
Kant on civilization, moralization and the paradox of happiness
110 (17)
Sergio Cremaschi
PART II UNDERSTANDING THE PARADOX OF HAPPINESS
If happiness is so important, why do we know so little about it?
127 (24)
Marina Bianchi
Well-being and consumption: towards a theoretical approach based on human needs satisfaction
151 (19)
Monica Guillen Royo
Enjoyment of life, the structure of time and economic dynamics
170 (15)
Mario Cogoy
Experienced versus decision utility of income: relative or absolute happiness
185 (24)
Maarten Vendrik
Johannes Hirata
Past product experiences as determinants of happiness with target product experiences: implications for subjective well-being
209 (12)
Rajagopal Raghunathan
Julie R. Irwin
The life plan view of happiness and the paradoxes of happiness
221 (18)
Mark Chekola
PART III RELATIONAL GOODS
The income--unhappiness paradox: a relational goods/Baumol disease explanation
239 (24)
Leonardo Becchetti
Marika Santoro
The subjective well-being paradox: a suggested solution based on relational goods
263 (27)
Maurizio Pugno
The not-so-fragile fragility of goodness: the responsive quality of fiduciary relationships
290 (28)
Vittorio Pelligra
Happiness, morality and game theory
318 (19)
Luca Zarri
Why are people so unhappy? Why do they strive so hard for money? Competing explanations of the broken promises of economic growth
337 (28)
Stefano Bartolini
On the demand for grandchildren: tied transfers and the demonstration effect
365 (42)
Donald Cox
Oded Stark
PART IV DATA AND POLICIES
Values and happiness in Mexico: the case of the metropolitan city of Monterrey
407 (22)
Jose de Jesus Garcia
Nicole Christa Fuentes
Salvador A. Borrego
Monica D. Gutierrez
Alejandro Tapia
Happiness, satisfaction and socioeconomic conditions: some international evidence
429 (18)
Amado Peiro
Happiness and the standard of living: the case of South Africa
447 (40)
Nattavudh Powdthavee
Federalism versus social citizenship: investigating the preference for equity in health care
487 (25)
Luca Crivelli
Gianfranco Domenighetti
Massimo Filippini
Happiness and sustainability: a modern paradox
512 (20)
Silva Marzetti Dall'Aste Brandolini
Ideals, conformism and reciprocity: a model of individual choice with conformist motivations, and an application to the not-for-profit case
532 (39)
Lorenzo Sacconi
Gianluca Grimalda
Index 571
Eds. Luigino Bruni, Pier Luigi Porta
