This article questions the increasing use of “happiness” or “subjective well-being” in order to evaluate public policies and social conditions. In more scientific words, can the blossoming economics of happiness revive the economics of welfare, which is said to be dying? The first section puts economics of happiness in the history of economic thought. The second part presents the methodological arguments and proofs of happiness data relevance, as well the results that open on welfare economics renewal and unusual political recommendations. The last part concludes that happiness is a useful criterion to evaluate society's state, but should not be the only one: happiness data can allow avoiding paternalism and ethnocentrism, for example, but ...
The economics of happiness is an influential research programme, the aim of which is to change welfa...
This Article provides a comprehensive, critical overview of proposals to use happiness surveys for s...
Measuring individual welfare using data on reported subjective well-being has made great progress. I...
This article questions the increasing use of “happiness” or “subjective well-being” in order to eval...
Over the last thirty years, happiness research in psychology, economics and philosophy has been disc...
International audienceAm I happy? Does money provide happiness? Is a successful life a happy life? I...
Happiness has become a central theme in public debates. Happiness indicators illustrate this importa...
Am I happy? Does money provide happiness? Is a successful life a happy life? Is there any right to h...
Résumé L'étude du bonheur a toujours été un sujet central dans la pensée économique, avec des appro...
"The measurement of individual happiness challenges the notion that revealed preferences only reliab...
The economic science has often been defined as ‘dismal’. However, it witnessed the origin of a new b...
International audienceThis article presents the traditional limitations of happiness economics and t...
Happiness research is one of the most vivid and fruitful parts of modern economics. The focus is on ...
This thesis explores the history of the relationship between economics and both experimental and soc...
The perception of economics as a dismal science for killjoys is challenged with the development of h...
The economics of happiness is an influential research programme, the aim of which is to change welfa...
This Article provides a comprehensive, critical overview of proposals to use happiness surveys for s...
Measuring individual welfare using data on reported subjective well-being has made great progress. I...
This article questions the increasing use of “happiness” or “subjective well-being” in order to eval...
Over the last thirty years, happiness research in psychology, economics and philosophy has been disc...
International audienceAm I happy? Does money provide happiness? Is a successful life a happy life? I...
Happiness has become a central theme in public debates. Happiness indicators illustrate this importa...
Am I happy? Does money provide happiness? Is a successful life a happy life? Is there any right to h...
Résumé L'étude du bonheur a toujours été un sujet central dans la pensée économique, avec des appro...
"The measurement of individual happiness challenges the notion that revealed preferences only reliab...
The economic science has often been defined as ‘dismal’. However, it witnessed the origin of a new b...
International audienceThis article presents the traditional limitations of happiness economics and t...
Happiness research is one of the most vivid and fruitful parts of modern economics. The focus is on ...
This thesis explores the history of the relationship between economics and both experimental and soc...
The perception of economics as a dismal science for killjoys is challenged with the development of h...
The economics of happiness is an influential research programme, the aim of which is to change welfa...
This Article provides a comprehensive, critical overview of proposals to use happiness surveys for s...
Measuring individual welfare using data on reported subjective well-being has made great progress. I...