Happiness, Ethics and Economics

Informationen zum Autor Johannes Hirata is Professor of Economics at the University of Applied Sciences of Osnabrück, Germany. Klappentext Modern happiness research has produced a wealth of evidence on the relationship between economic conditions and life satisfaction. This relationship is rather complex and it is to some extent intuitive but also partly surprising This book provides a stringent interpretation of this evidence and shows that it can be understood with the help of a handful of psychological and economic effects. To make sense of this evidence! it is necessary to have a sound conception of happiness that recognizes the ethical dimension of the concept! and Hirata does this by presenting happiness as a hedonic experience and evaluative exercise arguing that happiness is an important indicator that helps identify life concerns that really matter to people but that good development in society cannot be reduced to a matter of maximizing happiness. Zusammenfassung Despite decades of empirical happiness research, there is still little evidence for the positive effect of economic growth on life satisfaction. This poses a major challenge to welfare economic theory and to normative conceptions of socio-economic development. This book endeavours to explain these findings and to make sense of their ethical implications. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. The Evidence on Happiness 3. Relative Income and Happiness 4. Happiness and Ethics 5. Happiness and Good Development 6. Happiness-Oriented Societal Development Under the Premise of Democracy 7. Orientation for a Knowledgeable World

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Johannes Hirata, Hirata Johannes
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 24.02.2011
• EAN: 9780415584043
• ISBN: 978-0-415-58404-3
• Pagine: 190
• Serie: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, Philosophy, Economic theory & philosophy, Political Economy, Economic theory and philosophy