Economics and Happiness Framing the Analysis [Hardcover]

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-?-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.

Introduction,Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta
1. Correspondence of Sentiments: an explanation of the pleasure of social interaction,Robert Sugden
2. Economics and Happiness,Luigi Pasinetti
3. The Connexion Between and Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction,Bernard M. S. van Praag
4. Does Absolute Income Matter?,Robert H. Frank
5. Testing Theories of Happiness,Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer
6. Rethinking Public Economics: The implications of rivalry and habit,Richard Layard
7. Mill Between Aristotle and Bentham,Martha C. Nussbaum
8. Happiness and Political Philosophy: The case of Nancy Mitford versus Evelyn Waugh,Matt Matravers
9. Towards a Theory of Self-Segregation as a Response to Relative Deprivation,Oded Stark and You Qiang Wang
10. Happiness in Hardship,Ruut Veenhoven
11. Happiness and Individualism,Stefano Zamagni
12. The Evolution of Caring,