Handbook on the economics of happiness / edited by Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Happiness, wealth and utility in ancient thought / Gloria Vivenza -- The 'technology of happiness' and the tradition of economic science / Luigino Bruni -- Human needs hierarchy and happiness : evidence from the late pre-classical and classical economics / Stravos Drakopoulos and Anastasios Karayiannis -- Jeremy Bentham's quantitative analysis of happiness and its asymmetries / Marco E.L. Guidi -- Public happiness and civil society / Pier Luigi Porta and Roberto Scazzieri -- Kant on civilization, moralization and the paradox of happiness / Sergio Cremaschi -- If happiness is so important, why do we know so little about it? / Marina Bianchi -- Well-being and consumption : towards a theoretical approach based on human needs satisfaction / Monica Guillen Royo -- Enjoyment of life, the structure of time and economic dynamics / Mario Cogoy -- Experienced versus decision utility of income : relative or absolute happiness / Maarten Vendrik and Johannes Hirata -- Past product experiences as determinants of happiness with target product experiences : implications for subjective well-being / Rajagopal Raghunathan and Julie R. Irwin -- The life plan view of happiness and the paradoxes of happiness / Mark Chekola -- The income-unhappiness paradox : a relational goods/Baumol disease explanation / Leonardo Becchetti and Marika Santoro -- The subjective well-being paradox : a suggested solution based on relational goods / Maurizio Pugno -- The not-so-fragile fragility of goodness : the responsive quality of fiduciary relationships / Vittorio Pelligra -- Happiness, morality and game theory / Luca Zarri -- Why are people so unhappy? Why do they strive so hard for money? : competing explanations of the broken promises of economic growth / Stefano Bartolini -- On the demand for grandchildren : tied transfers and the demonstration effect / Donald Cox and Oded Stark -- Values and happiness in Mexico : the case of the metropolitan city of Monterrey / Jose de Jesus Garcia [and others] -- Happiness, satisfaction and socioeconomic conditions : some international evidence / Amado Peiró -- Happiness and the standard of living : the case of South Africa / Nattavudh Powdthavee -- Federalism versus social citizenship : investigating the preference for equity in health care / Luca Crivelli, Gianfranco Domenighetti and Massimo Filippini -- Happiness and sustainability : a modern paradox / Silva Marzetti Dall' Aste Brandolini -- Ideals, conformism and reciprocity : a model of individual choice with conformist motivations, and an application to the not-for-profit case / Lorenzo Sacconi and Gianluca Grimalda.