Social research, 2010-06, Vol.77 (2), p.679-714
2010
Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being
- Ist Teil von
- Social research, 2010-06, Vol.77 (2), p.679-714
- Ort / Verlag
- New York: Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School for Social Research
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2010
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
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- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulation of the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective well-being is often taken as a proxy measure for individual welfare. In our review, we intend to provide an evaluation of where the economic research on happiness stands and of three directions it might develop. First, it offers new ways for testing the basic assumptions of the economic approach and for going about a new understanding of utility. Second, it provides a new possibility for the complementary testing of theories across fields in economics. Third, we inquire how the insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. Adapted from the source document.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0037-783X, 1944-768XeISSN: 1944-768XDOI: 10.1353/sor.2010.0055Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_754067801
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Analysis, Consumer psychology, Decision making, Discourse, Economic aspects, Economic models, Economic research, Economic theory, Economic utility, Economics, Empirical Methods, Evaluation, GNP, Gross National Product, Happiness, Institutions, Labor market, Political institutions, Politics, Public goods, Public Policy, Quality of life, Social research, Social Sciences, Social Welfare, Studies, Television viewing, Unemployment, Well Being, Wellbeing