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The Economics of Happiness
Author | : Mark Anielski |
Publsiher | : New Society Publishers |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2009-03-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781550923414 |
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Practical solutions for building economies of well-being based on Genuine Wealth.
Economics of Happiness
Author | : Bruno S. Frey |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 75 |
Release | : 2018-02-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9783319758077 |
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This book focuses on what makes people happy. The author explains methods for measuring subjective life satisfaction and well-being by discussing economic and sociodemographic factors, as well as the psychological, cultural and political dimensions of personal happiness. Does higher income increase happiness? Are people in rich countries, such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Scandinavian countries, happier than those living elsewhere? Does losing one’s job make one unhappy? What is the role of genetic endowments inherited from our parents? How important are physical and emotional health to subjective life satisfaction? Do older people tend to be happier, or younger people? Are close social relationships necessary for happiness? Do political conditions, such as respect for human rights, democracy and autonomy, play a part? How can governments contribute to the population’s happiness? This book answers these questions on the basis of extensive interdisciplinary research reflecting the current state of knowledge. The book will appeal to anyone interested in learning more about the various dimensions of personal well-being beyond the happiness-prosperity connection, as well as to policymakers looking for guidance on how to improve happiness in societies.
Happiness and Economics
Author | : Bruno S. Frey,Alois Stutzer |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2010-11-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781400829262 |
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Curiously, economists, whose discipline has much to do with human well-being, have shied away from factoring the study of happiness into their work. Happiness, they might say, is an ''unscientific'' concept. This is the first book to establish empirically the link between happiness and economics--and between happiness and democracy. Two respected economists, Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer, integrate insights and findings from psychology, where attempts to measure quality of life are well-documented, as well as from sociology and political science. They demonstrate how micro- and macro-economic conditions in the form of income, unemployment, and inflation affect happiness. The research is centered on Switzerland, whose varying degrees of direct democracy from one canton to another, all within a single economy, allow for political effects to be isolated from economic effects. Not surprisingly, the authors confirm that unemployment and inflation nurture unhappiness. Their most striking revelation, however, is that the more developed the democratic institutions and the degree of local autonomy, the more satisfied people are with their lives. While such factors as rising income increase personal happiness only minimally, institutions that facilitate more individual involvement in politics (such as referendums) have a substantial effect. For countries such as the United States, where disillusionment with politics seems to be on the rise, such findings are especially significant. By applying econometrics to a real-world issue of general concern and yielding surprising results, Happiness and Economics promises to spark healthy debate over a wide range of the social sciences.
Handbook on the Economics of Happiness
Author | : L. Bruni |
Publsiher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 635 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781847204158 |
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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.
Happiness
Author | : Bruno S. Frey |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2010-08-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780262260725 |
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A leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the quantification of well-being) to answer important questions that standard economics methods are unable to analyze. Revolutionary developments in economics are rare. The conservative bias of the field and its enshrined knowledge make it difficult to introduce new ideas not in line with received theory. Happiness research, however, has the potential to change economics substantially in the future. Its findings, which are gradually being taken into account in standard economics, can be considered revolutionary in three respects: the measurement of experienced utility using psychologists' tools for measuring subjective well-being; new insights into how human beings value goods and services and social conditions that include consideration of such non-material values as autonomy and social relations; and policy consequences of these new insights that suggest different ways for government to affect individual well-being. In Happiness, emphasizing empirical evidence rather than theoretical conjectures, Bruno Frey substantiates these three revolutionary claims for happiness research. After tracing the major developments of happiness research in economics and demonstrating that we have gained important new insights into how income, unemployment, inflation, and income demonstration affect well-being, Frey examines such wide-ranging topics as democracy and federalism, self-employment and volunteer work, marriage, terrorism, and watching television from the new perspective of happiness research. Turning to policy implications, Frey describes how government can provide the conditions for people to achieve well-being, arguing that a crucial role is played by adequate political institutions and decentralized decision making. Happiness demonstrates the achievements of the economic happiness revolution and points the way to future research.
The Economics of Happiness
Author | : Mariano Rojas |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2019-09-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9783030158354 |
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This book presents a panoramic view of the implications from Richard Easterlin’s groundbreaking work on happiness and economics. Contributions in the book show the relevance of the Easterlin Paradox to main areas, such as the relationship between income and happiness, the relationship between economic growth and well-being, conceptions of progress and development, design and evaluation of policies for well-being, and the use of happiness research to address welfare economics issues. This book is unique in the sense that it gathers contributions from senior and top researchers in the economics of happiness, whom have played a central role in the consolidation of happiness economics, as well as promising young scholars, showing the current dynamism and consolidation of happiness economics.
Happiness Economics
Author | : Shari Lapeña |
Publsiher | : Brindle and Glass |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781897142547 |
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"Will Thorne is a stalled poet, married to Judy, a wildly successful celebrity economist ... When Will meets his muse, the enigmatic and athletic Lily White, he becomes inspired not only to write poetry, but to take guerrilla action in support of poets everywhere"--P. [4] of cover.
Measuring Happiness
Author | : Joachim Weimann,Andreas Knabe,Ronnie Schöb |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2015-02-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780262028448 |
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Can money buy happiness? Is income a reliable measure for life satisfaction? In this book, three economists explore the happiness-prosperity connection, investigating how economists measure life satisfaction and well-being. --