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| Happiness and inequality Lepenies, Philipp |
| Main title | Happiness and inequality |
| Subtitle | insights into a difficult relationship – and possible political implications |
| Author | Lepenies, Philipp |
| No. of Pages | 29 S. |
| Series | Working Paper Series / desiguALdades.net ; 30 |
| URL of the original document | URL >> |
| FU dept. or institution | desiguALdades.net |
| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Documents | pdf-Datei
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| Keywords | Inequality; Happiness; Happiness Economics; Political Economy |
| Classification (DDC) | 330 Economics 320 Political science |
| Type of document | Monograph, text |
| Media type or format | Text |
| Abstract | |
| Table of contents | Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Happiness and Inequality in Political Economy 3 2.1. The Invisible Hand and the Equally-Distributed Propensity to Happiness: Adam Smith 3 2.2. The Path of Progress towards Equality and Happiness: Condorcet 8 2.3. The Oscillation of Happiness: The Pessimism of Malthus and Townsend 8 2.4. Utilitarianism – Providing for the Greatest Happiness While Incarcerating the Poor: Bentham 10 2.5. The Flourishing of Life: Mill’s Idea of Happiness 12 2.6. The Legacy of Utilitarianism: Welfare Economics 13 2.7. John Kenneth Galbraith: Obsolete Economics and the Irrelevance of Inequality 15 3. Enter Happiness Economics 17 3.1. Richer but not Happier: The Easterlin Paradox 17 3.2. What is Happiness? 18 3.3. The “Hedonic Treadmill” and Set-Point Theory: Why More is Not Better 19 3.4. Enter Inequality: Why Comparing Us with Others Makes Us Unhappy – The Rat Race 20 3.5. Reasons for Tackling Inequality 21 3.6. It Ain’t Necessarily So 22 3.7. Why Foster Happiness by Tackling Inequality Nonetheless: A Question of Fairness 23 4. Conclusion 24 5. Bibliography 26 |
| Language | English |
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| Created at | 22.08.2012 - 09:25:55 |
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