This paper examines the normative principles that should guide policies aimed at promoting happiness or, more broadly …

opportunities. It is widely believed that happiness research based on self-reports on people's satisfaction with life has made a … significant contribution to this understanding. The growing numbers of happiness studies provoke the question whether, and … answering this question, this review paper provides a survey of the general happiness conception, the formative steps of …

help to restore to economics the breadth of purpose and methods it had two centuries ago, when happiness was considered the …