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What Can Economists Learn from Happiness Research?
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2001
. We argue that reported subjective well-being is a satisfactory empirical approximation to individual utility and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315155
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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
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What Can Economists Learn from Happiness Research?
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - CESifo - 2001
. We argue that reported subjective well-being is a satisfactory empirical approximation to individual utility and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765884
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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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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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Reported Subjective Well-Being: A Challenge for Economic Theory and Economic Policy
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2003
. This paper argues that reported subjective well-being is a satisfactory empirical approximation to individual utility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168167
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Should National Happiness be Maximized?
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2007
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/10012168256
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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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Human behavior : possibilities explain action
Frey, Bruno S. - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 7 (1986) 2, pp. 137-160
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