1、Economics and HappinessThis page intentionally left blank Economics and Happiness Framing the Analysis Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta ACAC Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the Universitys objective of excellen
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7、hennai, India Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Biddles Ltd., Kings Lynn, Norfolk ISBN 0199286280 9780199286287 10987654321Contents List of Figures vii List of Tables ix List of Contributors xii Introduction 1 Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta 1. Building a Better Theory of Well-Being
8、29 Richard A. Easterlin 2. Does Absolute Income Matter? 65 Robert H. Frank 3. Correspondence of Sentiments: An Explanation of the Pleasure of Social Interaction 91 Robert Sugden 4. Testing Theories of Happiness 116 Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer 5. Rethinking Public Economics: The Implications of R
9、ivalry and Habit 147 Richard Layard 6. Mill between Aristotle and Bentham 170 Martha C. Nussbaum 7. Happiness and Political Philosophy: The Case of Nancy Mitford versus Evelyn Waugh 184 Matt Matravers 8. The Connection between Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction 196 Bernard M. S. van Pr
10、aag v9. Towards a Theory of Self-Segregation as a Response to Relative Deprivation: Steady-State Outcomes and Social Welfare 223 Oded Stark and You Qiang Wang 10. Happiness in Hardship 243 Ruut Veenhoven 11. The Evolution of Caring 267 Charlotte D. Phelps 12. Happiness and Individualism: A Very Difc
11、ult Union 303 Stefano Zamagni 13. Paradoxes of Happiness in Economics 336 Luigi Pasinetti Index 345 vi ContentsList of Figures 1.1. Mean self-reported health, cohorts of 191120 to 195160, by age 35 1.2. Mean happiness of females by marital status, cohort of 195372 from ages 1819 to 2829 37 1.3. Mean
12、 happiness of males by marital status, cohort of 195372 from ages 1819 to 2829 37 1.4. Mean happiness of currently married and unmarried females in specied cohort, by age 39 1.5. Mean happiness of currently married and unmarried males in specied cohort, by age 39 1.6. Happiness and income over the l
13、ife cycle 43 1.7. Life cycle happiness by level of education 44 1.8. Percent of population naming specied item as important for their happiness, by age, around 1960 53 2.1. Average happiness versus average income over time in Japan 67 2.2. Income versus satisfaction in the US, 19814 68 4.1. Life sat
14、isfaction around marriage 133 4.2. Differences in the (shadow) wage rate between spouses and its effect on life satisfaction around marriage 134 4.3. Differences in the level of education between spouses and its effect on life satisfaction around marriage 135 5.1. Income and happiness 149 8.1a. The
15、virtual and true welfare functions 211 8.1b. The virtual and true welfare functions (linear transformation) 212 9.1. The group-formation process and the steady-state distribution 227 9.2. The migration process and the steady-state distribution with an innitesimal home preference 228 10.1. Happiness
16、and murder rate in 55 nations in the 1990s 247 10.2. Happiness and income inequality in 52 nations in the 1990s 249 vii10.3. Happiness and time pressure in EU nations in the 1990s 250 10.4. Trends in happiness in two nations, 19742002 251 10.5. Happiness and age in eight EU nations, 1980s 253 10.6.
17、Happiness and income in Italy, 1995 254 10.7. Explanations for paradoxical ndings 262 viii List of FiguresList of Tables 1.1. Percent distribution by life satisfaction of persons by self-reported disability status, 1986 33 1.2. Percent distribution by life satisfaction of persons with self-reported
18、disability, by characteristic of disabling condition, 1986 33 1.3. Mean happiness by self-reported health status, birth cohorts of 191120 to 195160, 19722000 35 1.4. Mean happiness of currently married women by number of times married, birth cohorts of 192130 to 195160, 19722000 40 1.5. Mean marital
19、 happiness of currently married women by number of times married, birth cohorts of 192130 to 195160, 19722000 40 1.6. Mean happiness of women not currently married by marital status, birth cohorts of 192130 to 195160, 19722000 41 1.7. Ownership of and desires for ten big-ticket consumer goods over t
20、hree 16-Year segments of the adult life cycle 46 1.8. Desires for specied big-ticket consumer goods and attainment of desires over three 16-Year segments of the adult life cycle 47 1.9. Changes in ownership of and desires for ten big-ticket consumer goods in specied life cycle stage, by level of edu
21、cation 48 1.10. Percent of cohort that has a Lot of Money at beginning and end of three 16-Year segments of the adult life cycle 49 1.11. Desires for a happy marriage and attainment of desires over three 16-Year segments of the adult life cycle 49 1.12. Percent of persons wanting a happy marriage among those who do not have one, by marital status and age, 1994 50 1.13. Desires for children and attainment of desires over three 16-Year segments of the adult life cycle 51 ix
