Happiness and economics how the economy and institutions affect human well-being
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 happine...
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Princeton ; Oxford
Princeton University Press
2010
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Setting the stage : 1. Happiness
- 2. Well-being and economics
- 3. Personality and socio-demographic influences on happiness
- Part II. Economic effects on happiness : 4. Income
- 5. Employment
- 6. Inflation
- Part III. Political effects on happiness : 7. The current politico-economic process
- 8: Constitution: popular referenda and federalism
- 9: Outcome and process
- Part IV. Conclusions : 10. Happiness inspires economics