- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press (6 Jun 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0262062771
- ISBN-13: 978-0262062770
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.5 x 2.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,005,507 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"An outstanding overview of the subject by a world leader in the field. Frey has an instinct for the right, revealing question combined with the techniques to find an illuminating answer."--Lord Richard Layard, Emeritus Professor of Economics, London School of Economics "Long a pioneer in the application of psychology to economics, Bruno Frey provides a masterful synthesis of happiness research, and demonstrates both its policy value and growing challenge to economic orthodoxy."--Richard A. Easterlin, Department of Economics, University of Southern California -- Richard Easterlin "Long a pioneer in the application of psychology to economics, Bruno Frey provides a masterful synthesis of happiness research, and demonstrates both its policy value and growing challenge to economic orthodoxy." Richard A. Easterlin , Department of Economics, University of Southern California
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Revolutionary developments in economics are rare. The conservative bias of the field and its enshrined knowledge make it difficult to introduce new ideas not in line with received theory. Happiness research, however, has the potential to change economics substantially in the future. Its findings, which are gradually being taken into account in standard economics, can be considered revolutionary in three respects: the measurement of experienced utility using psychologists' tools for measuring subjective well-being; new insights into how human beings value goods and services and social conditions that include consideration of such non-material values as autonomy and social relations; and policy consequences of these new insights that suggest different ways for government to affect individual well-being. In Happiness, emphasizing empirical evidence rather than theoretical conjectures, Bruno Frey substantiates these three revolutionary claims for happiness research. After tracing the major developments of happiness research in economics and demonstrating that we have gained important new insights into how income, unemployment, inflation, and income demonstration affect well-being, Frey examines such wide-ranging topics as democracy and federalism, self-employment and volunteer work, marriage, terrorism, and watching television from the new perspective of happiness research. Turning to policy implications, Frey describes how government can provide the conditions for people to achieve well-being, arguing that a crucial role is played by adequate political institutions and decentralized decision making. Happiness demonstrates the achievements of the economic happiness revolution and points the way to future research.Bruno S. Frey is Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich, Visiting Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Research Director of CREMA (Center for Research in Economics, Management, and the Arts). He is co-editor of Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field (MIT Press, 2007).
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Excellent new perspective on happiness, an exciting new paradigm for economists.
12 Jun 2010
Format:Hardcover
The authors of this book carefully argue for claims they make, backing them up with evidence from carefully conducted experiments (which are all re-described and referenced). They discuss the strength of their claims (which way causation flows and why) as well as the limits of conclusions that can be drawn thus far. They also point to where more research is needed.
The book starts out with (I think a persuasive) argument that happiness can be quantified for purposes of economic study and proceeds to describe what economists have learned by paying attention to happiness. The book continues by exploring new directions of research (such as procedural utility - the idea that not only the outcome matters to people) and implications for policy.
I highly recommend the book to economists or those interested in economics as well as those interested in happiness. I have researched happiness from reading much psychology literature and this book provided new insight that I have not had from the books and articles in psychology.
The book starts out with (I think a persuasive) argument that happiness can be quantified for purposes of economic study and proceeds to describe what economists have learned by paying attention to happiness. The book continues by exploring new directions of research (such as procedural utility - the idea that not only the outcome matters to people) and implications for policy.
I highly recommend the book to economists or those interested in economics as well as those interested in happiness. I have researched happiness from reading much psychology literature and this book provided new insight that I have not had from the books and articles in psychology.
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