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The set of papers collected in this volume aims to provide an overview
of happiness studies to date, with a special emphasis on its
relationship with economic thought. This volume discusses the state of
the art and the main strands and contributions to the "economics of
happiness", as a sub-discipline related to political economy.
However,
the main thrust of the volume is in focuses on the relationship between
happiness studies and economics. Moreover, this volume makes a specific
contribution in highlighting the comparative role and influence in the
subjectivist approach vis-ŕ-vis the objectivist approach to human
happiness in the current literature in the field.
The ambition of
this book is to present the reader with a conceptual framework for a
critical understanding of happiness studies and its relationship with
economics. While the economic perspective is central, the focus here is
on economics and happiness rather than the economics of happiness.
About the Authors
Luigino Bruni is Lecturer in Economics at the University of
Milano-Bicocca, Italy. He has been a visiting scholar at the University
of East Anglia and the University of Florence. His main interests are in
the field of ethics in economics, the history of economic thought, and
the methodology of economics, sociality, and happiness in economics.
Pier Luigi Porta is Chair at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He has
been a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, Université de Fribourg,
Duke University, New York University, and the University of Bologna. He
is also Secretary of ESHET, the European Society for the History of
Economic Thought.
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Product Details
- Paperback: 378 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN-10: 0199215235
ISBN-13: 978-0199215232
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