Happiness research is a new, rapidly growing and provocative aspect of economic science. In fact, there are now over 1 …,800 published papers on the subject, and it might be said that the ‘dismal science’ has come to be obsessed with happiness. This … is the ‘Easterlin Paradox’ – the finding that self-reported happiness does not always appear to grow in tandem with …

-being, the functional forms relying on income adaptation and social comparisons put forward in the happiness literature fail to … expansion experienced in the US in a non-growing happiness flow exhibit extremely high levels of adaptation that are not … can be explained by changes in the income distribution and the concavity of the happiness function. Since 1975 in the …

Verbrauchsmengen und Nutzen besteht. Dieses als Paradox der Zufriedenheit (happiness paradox) bezeichnete Ph?nomen wird damit erkl …Happiness research uses data on self-reported satisfaction to measure individuals? utilities. First empirical evidence … (happiness paradox). Explanations for the paradox refer to processes of social comparison and adaptation. Thus, the self …

Previous literature studying happiness, or subjective well-being, has mainly analyzedhappiness in relation to income … find thatnon-monetary factors are very important in explaining one’s level of happiness. …

fundamental to human well-being, indeed to human happiness. As we shall see, globalisation has done much to fragment community and … localisation.Many people around the world have looked to the King's aspiration to foster Gross National Happiness in Bhutan for …