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  title info:
    title: Happiness and Economics
    sub title: How the Economy and Institutions Affect Human Well-Being
  name:
    name part: Frey, Bruno S.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: aut
  name:
    name part: Stutzer, Alois
    role:
      role term: oth
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx#
    edition: Core Textbook
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: Curiously, economists, whose discipline has much to do with human well-being, have shied away from factoring the study of happiness into their work. Happiness, they might say, is an ''unscientific'' concept. This is the first book to establish empirically the link between happiness and economics--and between happiness and democracy. Two respected economists, Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer, integrate insights and findings from psychology, where attempts to measure quality of life are well-documented, as well as from sociology and political science. They demonstrate how micro- and macro-economic conditions in the form of income, unemployment, and inflation affect happiness. The research is centered on Switzerland, whose varying degrees of direct democracy from one canton to another, all within a single economy, allow for political effects to be isolated from economic effects. Not surprisingly, the authors confirm that unemployment and inflation nurture unhappiness. Their most striking revelation, however, is that the more developed the democratic institutions and the degree of local autonomy, the more satisfied people are with their lives. While such factors as rising income increase personal happiness only minimally, institutions that facilitate more individual involvement in politics (such as referendums) have a substantial effect. For countries such as the United States, where disillusionment with politics seems to be on the rise, such findings are especially significant. By applying econometrics to a real-world issue of general concern and yielding surprising results, Happiness and Economics promises to spark healthy debate over a wide range of the social sciences
  note: Alois Stutzer, Bruno S. Frey
  subject:
    topic: Economics / Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Happiness / Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Well-being
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General
  identifier: 9781400829262
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400829262
  record info:
    record content source: EBA-deGruyter
    record creation date: 190708
    record change date: 20250113101424.0
    record identifier: 990369201680206441
    language of cataloging:
      language term: ger