Few would dispute that the well-being of individuals is one of the most desirable aims of human actions. However, approaches on how to define, measure, evaluate, and promote well-being differ widely. The conventional economic approach takes income (or the power to acquire market goods) as the...

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...

Introduction / Aldo Montesano and Luigino Bruni -- Pareto's methodological project / Luigino Bruni -- Pareto and contemporary economic theory / John S. Chipman -- Choice, preference and rationalizability in Pareto's theory of economic behaviour / Marco Dardi -- Walras and Pareto on the meaning...