Handbook on the economics of happiness /
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| Imprint: | Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2007. |
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| Description: | xxxvii, 596 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Elgar original reference |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6825320 |
Table of Contents:
- Happiness, wealth and utility in ancient thought / Gloria Vivenza
- The 'technology of happiness' and the tradition of economic science / Luigino Bruni
- Human needs hierarchy and happiness : evidence from the late pre-classical and classical economics / Stravos Drakopoulos and Anastasios Karayiannis
- Jeremy Bentham's quantitative analysis of happiness and its asymmetries / Marco E.L. Guidi
- Public happiness and civil society / Pier Luigi Porta and Roberto Scazzieri
- Kant on civilization, moralization and the paradox of happiness / Sergio Cremaschi
- If happiness is so important, why do we know so little about it? / Marina Bianchi
- Well-being and consumption : towards a theoretical approach based on human needs satisfaction / Monica Guillen Royo
- Enjoyment of life, the structure of time and economic dynamics / Mario Cogoy
- Experienced versus decision utility of income : relative or absolute happiness / Maarten Vendrik and Johannes Hirata
- Past product experiences as determinants of happiness with target product experiences : implications for subjective well-being / Rajagopal Raghunathan and Julie R. Irwin
- The life plan view of happiness and the paradoxes of happiness / Mark Chekola
- The income-unhappiness paradox : a relational goods/Baumol disease explanation / Leonardo Becchetti and Marika Santoro
- The subjective well-being paradox : a suggested solution based on relational goods / Maurizio Pugno
- The not-so-fragile fragility of goodness : the responsive quality of fiduciary relationships / Vittorio Pelligra
- Happiness, morality and game theory / Luca Zarri
- Why are people so unhappy? Why do they strive so hard for money? : competing explanations of the broken promises of economic growth / Stefano Bartolini
- On the demand for grandchildren : tied transfers and the demonstration effect / Donald Cox and Oded Stark
- Values and happiness in Mexico : the case of the metropolitan city of Monterrey / Jose de Jesus Garcia ... [et al.]
- Happiness, satisfaction and socioeconomic conditions : some international evidence / Amado PeiroĢ
- Happiness and the dtandard of living : the case of South Africa / Nattavudh Powdthavee
- Federalism versus social citizenship : investigating the preference for equity in health care / Luca Crivelli, Gianfranco Domenighetti and Massimo Filippini
- Happiness and sustainability : a modern paradox / Silva Marzetti Dall' Aste Brandolini
- Ideals, conformism and reciprocity : a model of individual choice with conformist motivations, and an application to the not-for-profit case / Lorenzo Sacconi and Gianluca Grimalda.