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Handbook On The Economics Of Happiness

Edited by Luigino Bruni, Associate Professor of Economics and Pier Luigi Porta, Professor of Economics, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
Contents:

Introduction
Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta

PART I: LESSONS FROM THE PAST
1. Happiness, Wealth and Utility in Ancient Thought
Gloria Vivenza

2. The ‘Technology of Happiness’ and the Tradition of Economic Science
Luigino Bruni

3. Human Needs Hierarchy and Happiness: Evidence from the Late Pre-Classical and Classical Economics
Stravos Drakopoulos and Anastasios Karayiannis

4. Jeremy Bentham’s Quantitative Analysis of Happiness and its Asymmetries
Marco E.L. Guidi

5. Public Happiness and Civil Society
Pier Luigi Porta and Roberto Scazzieri

6. Kant on Civilization, Moralization and the Paradox of Happiness
Sergio Cremaschi

PART II: UNDERSTANDING THE PARADOX OF HAPPINESS
7. If Happiness is so Important, Why Do We Know So Little About It?
Marina Bianchi

8. Well-being and Consumption: Towards a Theoretical Approach Based on Human Need Satisfaction
Monica Guillen Royo

9. Enjoyment of Life, the Structure of Time and Economic Dynamics
Mario Cogoy

10. Experienced Versus Decision Utility of Income: Relative or Absolute Happiness
Maarten Vendrik and Johannes Hirata

11. Past Product Experiences as Determinants of Happiness with Target Product Experiences: Implications for Subjective Well-being
Rajagopal Raghunathan and Julie R. Irwin

12. The Life Plan View of Happiness and the Paradoxes of Happiness
Mark Chekola

PART III: RELATIONAL GOODS
13. The Income–Unhappiness Paradox: A Relational Goods/Baumol Disease Explanation
Leonardo Becchetti and Marika Santoro

14. The Subjective Well-being Paradox: A Suggested Solution Based on Relational Goods
Maurizio Pugno

15. The Not-So-Fragile Fragility of Goodness: The Responsive Quality of Fiduciary Relationships
Vittorio Pelligra

16. Happiness, Morality and Game Theory
Luca Zarri

17. Why are People so Unhappy? Why do They Strive so Hard for Money? Competing Explanations of the Broken Promises of Economic Growth
Stefano Bartolini

18. On the Demand for Grandchildren: Tied Transfers and the Demonstration Effect
Donald Cox and Oded Stark

PART IV: DATA AND POLICIES
19. Values and Happiness in Mexico: The Case of the Metropolitan City of Monterrey
Jose de Jesus Garcia, Nicole Christa Fuentes, Salvador A. Borrego, Monica D. Gutierrez and Alejandro Tapia

20. Happiness, Satisfaction and Socioeconomic Conditions: Some International Evidence
Amado Peiró

21. Happiness and the Standard of Living: The Case of South Africa
Nattavudh Powdthavee

22. Federalism Versus Social Citizenship: Investigating the Preference for Equity in Health Care
Luca Crivelli, Gianfranco Domenighetti and Massimo Filippini

23. Happiness and Sustainability: A Modern Paradox
Silva Marzetti Dall’Aste Brandolini

24. 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

Index
2007 640 pp Hardback 978 1 84376 826 5 $ 255.00 on-line discount $ 229.50
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