Pugno, Maurizio - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 43 (2013) C, pp. 1-10
The recent debate on happiness in economics has revived interest in Scitovsky's 1976 book The Joyless Economy, which aims at extending the concept of welfare, and explaining the income-happiness paradox, i.e. “why [American] unprecedented and fast-growing prosperity had left its beneficiaries...