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The Economics of Happiness

How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed Our Understanding of Well-Being and Progress

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Editors:
  1. Mariano Rojas

    1. FLACSO-México & UPAEP, Tlalpan, Ciudad de México, Mexico

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  • 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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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  4. Happiness in Welfare Economics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Does Happiness Improve Welfare Economics a Lot?

      • Gabriel Leite Mota
      Pages 129-156

    3. Why the Easterlin Paradox? The Scitovsky Hypothesis

      • Maurizio Pugno
      Pages 157-170

    4. Homo Economicus and Happiness: Towards More Sustainable Development

      • Martin Binder
      Pages 171-191

  5. Applications of Happiness in Economics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
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    2. Distaste for Inequality? The Role of Risk Aversion

      • Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Xavier Ramos
      Pages 195-215

    3. Advertising as a Major Source of Human Dissatisfaction: Cross-National Evidence on One Million Europeans

      • Chloe Michel, Michelle Sovinsky, Eugenio Proto, Andrew J. Oswald
      Pages 217-239

    4. What Makes for a Good Job? Evidence Using Subjective Wellbeing Data

      • Christian Krekel, George Ward, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve
      Pages 241-268
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About this book

This book presents a panoramic view of the implications from Richard Easterlin’s groundbreaking work on happiness and economics. Contributions in the book show the relevance of the Easterlin Paradox to main areas, such as the relationship between income and happiness, the relationship between economic growth and well-being, conceptions of progress and development, design and evaluation of policies for well-being, and the use of happiness research to address welfare economics issues.  This book is unique in the sense that it gathers contributions from senior and top researchers in the economics of happiness, whom have played a central role in the consolidation of happiness economics, as well as promising young scholars, showing the current dynamism and consolidation of happiness economics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • FLACSO-México & UPAEP, Tlalpan, Ciudad de México, Mexico

    Mariano Rojas

About the editor

Mariano Rojas is Professor of Economics at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede México and at Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, Mexico. He holds a Ph.D in economics from The Ohio State University, United States. His areas of research are: Subjective Well-Being, Happiness, Quality of Life, Poverty Studies, Economic Development and Social Progress. He was the President of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies, which is the largest and oldest academic Society addressing the issues of quality of life, happiness and well-being. He has published the books entitled The Scientific Study of Happiness (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico) and Can the Economy provide Happiness? (RBA, Spain). Mariano Rojas also edited the Handbook of Happiness Research in Latin America (Springer) and co-edited the Global Handbook of Quality of Life: Exploration of Well-Being of Nations and Continents (Springer). He has published more than 100 academic papers and bookchapters, mostly about happiness-related issues. Mariano Rojas also coordinated the Mexican Initiative Measuring the Progress of Societies: A Perspective from Mexico, which aimed to make a contribution from Latin America to the global discussion on new ways of conceiving and measuring social performance and progress. He has edited many books dealing with paradigm shift in the notion of social progress, such as: The Measurement of Progress and Well-Being; Proposals from Latin America.

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

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