Happiness and Economics
How the Economy and Institutions Affect Human Well-Being
Seiten
2001
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-06997-5 (ISBN)
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-06997-5 (ISBN)
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This text establishes the link between happiness and economics and happiness and democracy. The guide demonstrates how micro- and macro-economic systems in the form of income, unemployment, and inflation affect happiness.
Curiously, economists, whose discipline has much to do with human well-being, have shied away from factoring the study of happiness into their work. Happiness, they might say, is an "unscientific" concept. This book aims to establish empirically the link between happiness and economics - and between happiness and democracy. Two respected economists, Bruno Frey and Alois Stutzer, integrate insights and findings from psychology, where attempts to measure quality of life are well-documented, as well as from sociology and political science. They demonstrate how micro- and macro-economic conditions in the form of income, unemployment, and inflation affect happiness. The research is centred on Switzerland, whose varying degrees of direct democracy from one canton to another, all within a single economy, allow for political effects to be isolated from economic effects. Not surprisingly, the authors confirm that unemployment and inflation nurture unhappiness. Their most striking revlation, however, is that the more developed the democratic institutions and the degree of local autonomy, the more satisified people are with their lives.
While such factors as rising income increase personal ha
Curiously, economists, whose discipline has much to do with human well-being, have shied away from factoring the study of happiness into their work. Happiness, they might say, is an "unscientific" concept. This book aims to establish empirically the link between happiness and economics - and between happiness and democracy. Two respected economists, Bruno Frey and Alois Stutzer, integrate insights and findings from psychology, where attempts to measure quality of life are well-documented, as well as from sociology and political science. They demonstrate how micro- and macro-economic conditions in the form of income, unemployment, and inflation affect happiness. The research is centred on Switzerland, whose varying degrees of direct democracy from one canton to another, all within a single economy, allow for political effects to be isolated from economic effects. Not surprisingly, the authors confirm that unemployment and inflation nurture unhappiness. Their most striking revlation, however, is that the more developed the democratic institutions and the degree of local autonomy, the more satisified people are with their lives.
While such factors as rising income increase personal ha
Bruno Frey is Professor of Economics at the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics in Zurich. He is the author of Economics as a Science of Human Behavior, Not Just for the Money. An Economic Theory of Personal Motivation: The New Democratic Federalism for Europe and Inspiring Economics. Alois Stutzer is a lecturer on the theory of economic policy at the University of Zurich, where he is also finishing his Ph.D. on economics and happiness. He has authored several papers in the fields of public choice, labor economics, and economics and psychology.
| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie |
| Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-06997-2 / 0691069972 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-06997-5 / 9780691069975 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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