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Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field
Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Stutzer, Alois (contributor) - The MIT Press
acts), the acceptance of experiments as a valid method of economic research, and the idea that utility or well-being can be … neuroeconomics as a way to deepen understanding of individual decision making, and procedural utility as a concept that captures the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008632730
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Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field
Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Stutzer, Alois (contributor) - The MIT Press
acts), the acceptance of experiments as a valid method of economic research, and the idea that utility or well-being can be … neuroeconomics as a way to deepen understanding of individual decision making, and procedural utility as a concept that captures the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034453
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Interactions between preferences and consumption in economic development
Frey, Bruno S. - In: Scottish journal of political economy : the journal of … 20 (1973) 1, pp. 53-64
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002162713
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Reported Subjective Well-Being: A Challenge for Economic Theory and Economic Policy
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2003
. This paper argues that reported subjective well-being is a satisfactory empirical approximation to individual utility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005808610
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Should National Happiness be Maximized?
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2006
Cross-disciplinary ?happiness research? has made big progress in the measurement of individual welfare. This development makes it tempting to pursue the old dream of maximizing aggregate happiness as a social welfare function. However, we postulate that the appropriate approach is not to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005536939
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Testing Theories of Happiness
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
Happiness research in economics takes reported subjective well-being as a proxy measure for utility and has already … understanding of utility in economics. Here, we study the introduction of income aspirations in individuals’ utility functions in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627769
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Should We Maximize National Happiness?
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2006
Cross-disciplinary ‘happiness research’ has made big progress in the measurement of individual welfare. This development makes it tempting to pursue the old dream of maximizing aggregate happiness as a social welfare function. However, we postulate that the appropriate approach is not to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627967
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What can Economists Learn from Happiness Research?
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
. We argue that reported subjective well-being is a satisfactory empirical approximation to individual utility and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005760911