Since the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century, the Western economies have experienced unprecedented and persistent growth of national income. But empirical surveys that have been carried out consistently reveal that people have not become happier at the same rate. The connections between national income and happiness have become weaker and weaker over time. The author suggests that the Classical approach to economics can offer a wider theoretical framework for the investigation of many topics concerning human behavior and thus also of happiness.
Pasinetti, L. L., Paradoxes of Happiness in Economics, in Bruni, L., Porta, P. L. (ed.), Economics & Happiness – Framing the Analysis, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005: 336- 343 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/81605]
Paradoxes of Happiness in Economics
Pasinetti, Luigi LodovicoPrimo
2005
Abstract
Since the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century, the Western economies have experienced unprecedented and persistent growth of national income. But empirical surveys that have been carried out consistently reveal that people have not become happier at the same rate. The connections between national income and happiness have become weaker and weaker over time. The author suggests that the Classical approach to economics can offer a wider theoretical framework for the investigation of many topics concerning human behavior and thus also of happiness.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.