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Handbook on the economics of happiness / edited by Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Elgar original reference | Edward Elgar E-Book ArchivePublisher: Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass : Edward Elgar, 2007Description: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxvii, 596 p)ISBN:
  • 9781847204158
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: 1843768267 | 9781843768265 (hardback) | Erscheint auch als: 9781843768265 (hardback) Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: Handbook on the economics of happiness. Druck-Ausgabe. Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, 2007. XXXVII, 596 S.DDC classification:
  • 330.01/9 22
RVK: RVK: CC 7750 | QC 010 | CW 7400LOC classification:
  • HB74.P8
DOI: DOI: 10.4337/9781847204158Online resources: Summary: 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 discussion of the economic issues relating to happiness. It reviews the more recent literature and offers the interested reader an insight into the vast scope of the field in terms of the theory, its applications and also experimental design. The Handbook also gives substantial indications as to the future direction of research in the field, with particular regard to policy applications and developing an economics of interpersonal relations which includes reciprocity and social interaction theorySummary: pt. 1. Lessons from the past -- pt. 2. Understanding the paradox of happiness -- pt. 3. Relational goods -- pt. 4. Data and policiesPPN: PPN: 1023442108Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-EWE
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