Happiness
What's the Use
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2159495 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keith Tribe (0000-0003-0726-0756, Moscow State University of Technologies and Management named after K.G. Razumovskiy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 460-468 |
| Publication date | 2008-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economy and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03085140802172730 |
| OpenAlex | W2090958154 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
There is a growing literature suggesting that economic analysis is not after all a dismal science, and that the discipline is capable of reinventing itself as an investigation of the nature and causes of human happiness. Reviewing two recent contributions to this genre, it is suggested that economists do have difficulties substituting ‘happiness’ for ‘utility’ as the touchstone for resource allocation, that the importance of ‘happiness’ in the evaluation of economic policy was well known in the eighteenth century but largely eradicated from the classical economics of the nineteenth and that the recent (re)discovery of ‘happiness’ by mainstream economics remains partial and unconvincing
Applied economics · Economics · Happiness · Mainstream · Mainstream economics · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Positive economics · Art History and Market Analysis · Economic Theory and Institutions · Economic Theory and Policy · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |