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<big>''Economists that Focus on Happiness in Economics''</big> | <big>''Economists that Focus on Happiness in Economics''</big> | ||
== Richard Easterlin== | |||
"First economist to make prominant use of Happiness data" (from first website below) | |||
[http://www.people.hbs.edu/rditella/papers/JEPHappyData.pdf article,Some uses of Happiness Data in Economics ] | |||
[http://www.jstor.org/view/00130133/di983549/98p0497i/0?frame=noframe&userID=40093d91@dickinson.edu/01c0a80a6600501ce9092&dpi=3&config=jstor article, Happiness and Economic Performance] | |||
== Richard Layard == | == Richard Layard == | ||
Revision as of 21:25, 13 November 2007
Economists that Focus on Happiness in Economics
Richard Easterlin
"First economist to make prominant use of Happiness data" (from first website below)
article,Some uses of Happiness Data in Economics
article, Happiness and Economic Performance
Richard Layard
Happiness: Has Social Science a Clue?
- Lecture 1:
- "To understand how the economy actually affects our well-being, we have to use psychology as well as economics"
- "despite economic growth, happiness in the West has not grown in the last 50 years"
- focuses on the underlying happiness
- "In the standard economic model, private actions and exchanges get us to a Pareto optimum where no one could be happier without someone else being less happy"
- "The higher the real wage, the happier the population"
Important Graphs! Richard Layard Lecture 1
