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.
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