1. Introduction / Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta -- 2. Happiness and social institutions / Amartya Sen -- Part I. Quality of life -- 3. New frontiers: societal measures of subjective well-being for input to policy / Ed Diener and Louis Tay -- 4. Linking happiness to health: comparisons...

Contents: 1 Happiness and wellbeing: past foundations, modern evidence and future paths / Luigino Bruni, Dalila De Rosa and Alessandra Smerilli -- 2 What future happiness research? / Bruno Frey -- PART I HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE ECONOMICS OF HAPPINESS -- 3 Aristotle,...

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...