Economics and Happiness. Framing the Analysis.

ISBN: 978-0-19-921523-2
Materia: Análisis económico
Autor: Bruni, Luigino.; Porta, Pier Luigi.
Editorial: Oxford University Press.
Edición: 2007
Encuadernación: Rústica
Páginas: 384
Medidas: 16 x 23 cm
PVP: 35,00 €

Reseña:
The set of papers collected in this volume aims to provide an overview of happiness studies to date, with a special emphasis on its relationship with economic thought. This volume discusses the state of the art and the main strands and contributions to the 'economics of happiness', as a sub-discipline related to political economy. However, the main thrust of the volume is in focuses on the relationship between happiness studies and economics. Moreover, this volume makes a specific contribution in highlighting the comparative role and influence in the subjectivist approach vis-a-vis the objectivist approach to human happiness in the current literature in the field. The ambition of this book is to present the reader with a conceptual framework for a critical understanding of happiness studies and its relationship with economics. While the economic perspective is central, the focus here is on economics and happiness rather than the economics of happiness.

Índice:
Introduction; Richard A. Easterlin: Building a Better Theory of Well-Being; Robert H. Frank: Does Absolute Income Matter?; Robert Sugden: Correspondence of Sentiments; Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer: Testing Theories of Happiness; Richard Layard: Rethinking Public Economics; Martha C. Nussbaum: Mill Between Aristotle and Bentham; Matt Matravers: Happiness and Political Philosophy; Bernard M.S. van Praag: The Connection Between Old and New Approaches to
Financial Satisfaction; Oded Stark and You Qiang Wang: Towards a Theory of Self-Segregation as a Response to Relative Deprivation; Ruut Veenhoven: Happiness in Hardship; Stefano Zamagni: Happiness and Individualism; Charlotte Phelps: The Evolution of Caring; Luigi Pasinetti: Paradoxes of Happiness in Economics