poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has … been stagnant over time despite sharp rises in income. Consumption taxes on status-seeking spending, along with official …

Messung menschlicher Armut und Entwicklung gibt es seit den späten 70er Jahren zunehmendes Interesse an der Ökonomie des …Concurrent to the widespread use of traditional income or consumption based measures for determining human development …, there has been growing interest in the economics of happiness since the late 70s. Likewise, there is a broad strand in …