Recent Developments in the Economics of Happiness

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Recent Developments in the Economics of Happiness

Edited Book (Herausgeber eines eigenständigen Buches)

ID	2172947
Editor(s)	Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois
Editor(s) at UniBasel	Stutzer, Alois Frey, Bruno S.
Year	2013
Title	Recent Developments in the Economics of Happiness
Publisher	Edward Elgar
Place of publication	Cheltenham
ISSN/ISBN	978-1-78195-382-2 ; 978-1-78471-055-2
Series title	International library of critical writings in economics
Abstract	What makes people happy in life? This crucial question has the potential to shake up economics. In recent years, dissatisfaction with the understanding of welfare in economics and new opportunities for empirical study of people’s subjective well-being have spurred impressive and stimulating new research into the ‘dismal’ science, resulting in increased interest in the economics of happiness. Professor Frey and Professor Stutzer have selected contributions by leading scholars which offer a wide-ranging overview of recent developments. These include an exploration of the economic determinants of happiness, the importance of social capital and health for well-being and the new life satisfaction approach to valuing public goods. Work on utility misprediction and adaptation challenges the existing fundamentals of economics, and the role of happiness research in public policy is investigated from different perspectives.
edoc-URL	http://edoc.unibas.ch/dok/A6054088
Full Text on edoc	No
Digital Object Identifier DOI	10.4337/9781784710552

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