The Economics of Happiness : How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed Our Understanding of Well-Being and Progress
edited by Mariano Rojas
Part 1. Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Relevance of Richard Easterlin’s Groundbreaking Work. A Historical Perspective (Mariano Rojas) -- Part 2. Income and Happiness -- Chapter 2. The Easterlin Paradox Revisited: Who is Right? (Maarten Vendrik) -- Chapter 3. Relative Income, Subjective Wellbeing and the Easterlin Paradox: Intra- and Inter-national Comparisons (Arthur Grimes) -- Chapter 4. Relative Income in Latin America (Mariano Rojas) -- Part 3. Happiness in Welfare Economics -- Chapter 5. Does Happiness Improve Welfare Economics a Lot? (Gabriel Leite Mota) -- Chapter 6. The Easterlin Paradox from the Perspective of Scitovsky’s The Joyless Economy (Maurizio Pugno) -- Part 4. Happiness in Development -- Chapter 7. It’s not the Economy, Stupid! Shifting Policies from Economic Growth to Social Capital and Happiness (Stefano Bartolini) -- Chapter 8. Homo Economics and Happiness: Towards more Sustainable Development (Martin Binder) -- Chapter 9. Keynes' Grandchildren and Easterlin's Paradox: What is Keeping us from Reducing our Working Hours? (Johannes Hirata) -- Chapter 10. Using Well-Being Metrics to Assess Social Well-Being and Ill-Being: Lessons from Rising Mortality Rates in the United States (Carol Graham) -- Part 5. Social Foundations of Happiness -- Chapter 11. When does the Weight of Expectations hit Children? And are They Peer Oriented? (Paul Frijters) -- Chapter 12. Social Foundations of the Life Course of Happiness (John F. Helliwell) -- Part 6. Happiness along the Life Course -- Chapter 13. Born to be Mild? Cohort Effects don’t (fully) Explain why Well-being is U-shaped in Age (Andrew E. Clark) -- Chapter 14. Do Modern Humans Suffer a Psychological Low in Midlife? Two Approaches (With and Without Controls) in Seven Data Sets (David G. Blanchflower ) -- Part 7. Happiness in Economics -- Chapter 15. Inequality Aversion and Risk Attitudes (Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell ) -- Chapter 15. Inequality Aversion and Risk Attitudes (Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell) -- Chapter 16. Happiness and Lottery Wins (Andrew J. Oswald) -- Part 8. Happiness in Politics -- Chapter 17. The Subjective Well-being Political Paradox: Evidence from Latin America (Anke C. Plagnol)
