Overview
- Provides an overview of Richard Easterlin’s groundbreaking work on happiness and economics, widely known as the Easterlin Paradox
- Brings together insights from a selective group of economists, senior researchers in the economics of happiness and promising young scholars showing the current dynamics and consolidation of happiness economics
- Addresses relevant issues on progress and welfare economics
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Keywords
- Consolidation of Happiness Economics
- Economic Growth and Well-Being
- Easterlin Paradox
- Happiness along the Life Course
- Happiness in Welfare Economics
- Happiness Research and Policy Implicatons
- Income and Happiness
- Relationship between Economic Growth and Happiness
- Scientific Approach in the Study of Happiness
- Subjective Measures of Well-Being
- Happiness in Politics
- Richard Easterlin
Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Introduction
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Income and Happiness
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Happiness in Welfare Economics
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Applications of Happiness in Economics
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Happiness in Development
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Economics of Happiness
Book Subtitle: How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed Our Understanding of Well-Being and Progress
Editors: Mariano Rojas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15835-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15834-7Published: 25 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15837-8Published: 25 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15835-4Published: 13 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 481
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 63 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Quality of Life Research, Positive Psychology