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HAPPINESS ECONOMICS FROM 35 000 FEET
Author(s) -
MacKerron George
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of economic surveys
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.657
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1467-6419
pISSN - 0950-0804
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6419.2010.00672.x
Subject(s) - happiness , positive economics , economics , relation (database) , field (mathematics) , politics , public economics , classical economics , psychology , social psychology , political science , law , mathematics , computer science , database , pure mathematics
The economics of happiness, or subjective well being, is an expanding field, with a growing number of applied papers reporting empirical associations between happiness and other variables. This paper takes a broad view of the topic, aiming to provide an outline of the literature in relation to happiness economics' origins, definitions, theory, methods, applications, critiques, relations with other areas of economic research, political and policy connections, and promising directions for future inquiry.