Handbook on the Economics of HappinessEdward Elgar Publishing, 1.01.2007 г. - 640 страници 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. |
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evidence from the late preclassical and classical economics | 53 |
4 Jeremy Benthams quantitative analysis of happiness and its asymmetries | 68 |
5 Public happiness and civil society | 95 |
6 Kant on civilization moralization and the paradox of happiness | 110 |
PART II UNDERSTANDING THE PARADOX OF HAPPINESS | 125 |
7 If happiness is so important why do we know so little about it? | 127 |
a suggested solution based on relational goods | 263 |
the responsive quality of fiduciary relationships | 290 |
16 Happiness morality and game theory | 318 |
17 Why are people so unhappy? Why do they strive so hard for money? Competing explanations of the broken promises of economic growth | 337 |
tied transfers and the demonstration effect | 365 |
PART IV DATA AND POLICIES | 405 |
the case of the metropolitan city of Monterrey | 407 |
some international evidence | 429 |
towards a theoretical approach based on human needs satisfaction | 151 |
9 Enjoyment of life the structure of time and economic dynamics | 170 |
relative or absolute happiness | 185 |
implications for subjective wellbeing | 209 |
12 The life plan view of happiness and the paradoxes of happiness | 221 |
PART III RELATIONAL GOODS | 237 |
a relational goodsBaumol disease explanation | 239 |
the case of South Africa | 447 |
investigating the preference for equity in health care | 487 |
a modern paradox | 512 |
a model of individual choice with conformist motivations and an application to the notforprofit case | 532 |
Index | 571 |
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Страница 70 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Страница 235 - In this frame of mind it occurred to me to put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?
Страница 37 - Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life, it examines that part of individual and social action which is most closely connected with the attainment and with the use of the material requisites of wellbeing...
Страница 33 - Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end.
Страница 35 - They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
Страница 35 - They consume little more than the poor ; and in spite of their natural selfishness and rapacity, though they mean only their own conveniency, though the sole end which they propose from the labours of all the thousands whom they employ be the gratification of their own vain and insatiable desires, they divide with the poor the produce of all their improvements.
Страница 235 - At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down. All my happiness was to have been found in the continual pursuit of this end. The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for.
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Страница 60 - Servants, laborers and workmen of different kinds, make up the far greater part of every great political society. But what improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole.
Страница 20 - No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.