Recent developments in the economics of happiness

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Stutzer Alois; Frey Bruno S
Published: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited,
Publisher Address: Cheltenham Northampton
Publication Dates: c2013.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: The International library of critical writings in economics ; 271
Subjects:
Carrier Form: xxiii, 524 p.: ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9781781953822 (hbk.)
1781953821 (hbk.)
Index Number: F0
CLC: F0-05
Call Number: F0-05/R295
Contents: Includes bibliographical references.
Reviews of the new approach. What can economists learn from happiness research? / Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer -- Developments in the measurement of subjective well-being / Daniel Kahneman and Alan B. Krueger -- Hedonic psychology and the ambiguities of "welfare" / Mark Kelman -- Economic determinants of subjective well-being. Relative income, happiness, and utility : an explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and other puzzles / Andrew E. Clark, Paul Frijters and Michael A. Shields -- Economic growth and subjective well-being : reassessing the Easterlin Paradox / Betsey Stevenson and Justi