This book is a welcome consolidation and extension of the recent expanding debates on happiness and economics …. Happiness and economics, as a new field for research, is now of pivotal interest particularly to welfare economists and … psychologists. This Handbook provides an unprecedented forum for discussion of the economic issues relating to happiness. It reviews …

-i-Carbonell (2004), Happiness Quantified - A Satisfaction Calculus Approach, Oxford: Oxford University Press. -- Sarracino, Francesco … economics of happiness. Professor Frey and Professor Stutzer have selected contributions by leading scholars which offer a wide …-ranging overview of recent developments. These include an exploration of the economic determinants of happiness, the importance of …

the utilitarian programme. His vision was for increased human happiness through a wholesale reform of the revenue system …, never losing his faith in the utilitarian ideal or his belief in the property tax solution as the key to fiscal happiness …

This timely and important book presents a unique study of happiness from both economic and political perspectives. It … offers an overview of contemporary research on the emergent field of happiness studies and contains contributions by some of …pt. I. Happiness -- pt. II. Happiness and economics -- pt. III. Happiness and politics -- pt. IV. What is to be done? …

significant component for improving the happiness, health and well-being of citizens, communities and society as a whole. In so … impact / Michael C. Davis and Christian M. End -- 8. Sports participation and happiness : evidence from US micro data …

, consumption and saving, the causes of the global financial crisis, economic growth and happiness and income distribution and the … from Surveys of Happiness', American Economic Review, 91 (1), March, 335-41 -- Richard H. Thaler and Shlomo Benartzi (2004 …-8), July, 1359-86 -- Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer (2002), 'What Can Economists Learn from Happiness Research?', Journal of …

This book provides a fresh assessment of the impact of the First World War on the international economy. Leading … academics offer new perspectives on the effects of the War on the long-term growth rates of the belligerent countries and …1. The war and the international economy -- 2. Recent developments in modelling trends and cycles in economic time …