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Economics and Happiness
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Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta: Introduction
1: Richard A. Easterlin: Building a Better Theory of Well-Being
2: Robert H. Frank: Does Absolute Income Matter?
3: Robert Sugden: Correspondence of Sentiments
4: Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer: Testing Theories of Happiness
5: Richard Layard: Rethinking Public Economics
6: Martha C. Nussbaum: Mill Between Aristotle and Bentham
7: Matt Matravers: Happiness and Political Philosophy
8: Bernard M.S. van Praag: The Connection Between Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction
9: Oded Stark and You Qiang Wang: Towards a Theory of Self-Segregation as a Response to Relative Deprivation
10: Ruut Veenhoven: Happiness in Hardship
11: Stefano Zamagni: Happiness and Individualism
12: Charlotte Phelps: The Evolution of Caring
13: Luigi Pasinetti: Paradoxes of Happiness in Economics

About the Author

Luigino Bruni is Lecturer in Economics at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of East Anglia and the University of Florence. His main interests are in the field of ethics in economics, the history of economic thought, and the methodology of economics, sociality, and happiness in economics.
Pier Luigi Porta, formerly Professor of economics at the University of Milano-Bicocca. For ten years he was the Director of the Department of Economics at Bicocca, and a member of the Senate and of the Board of the University. A former research student at the University of Cambridge, he was also a Member of Christ's College and a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College at Cambridge. He was a life member of the Istituto Lombardo-Accademia di Scienze e Lettere at Brera and a member of the Executive of
the Italian Economic Society. He was the Editor-in-chief of the International Review of Economics and has taught in a number of academic institutions in Italy and abroad. He published over one hundred
and fifty papers and several volumes including Economics and Happiness (co-edited with L. Bruni, Oxford University Press, 2007), and Structural Dynamics and Economic Growth ( co-edited with R. Aréna, Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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