Titolo
THE ECONOMIC PROBLEM OF HAPPINESS: KEYNES ON HAPPINESS AND ECONOMICS
Periodico
Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale 'A. Avogadro' : Facoltà di Economia - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Metodi Quantitativi "SEMEQ" - Quaderni
Anno: 2009 - Fascicolo: 13 - Pagina iniziale: 1 - Pagina finale: 42

In their latest book, Bruno Frey (2008) and the members of the research group he chairs at the University of Zurich announce that happiness research is leading a revolution in economics. This paper aims to discuss critically this claim and what we identified as five crucial issues of mainstream happiness economics. In so doing, we attempt to review John Maynard Keynes’s vision about happiness and economics, starting from a revisiting of his essay Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren. We then provide reasons to argue that the rediscovery of Keynes’s legacy in this respect can be of help to point out and examine the most controversial aspects of today’s happiness research.



Testo completo: http://semeq.unipmn.it/files/The_Economic_Problem_of_Happiness_-_Carabelli_and_Cedrini.pdf

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