Economics, wealth and happiness in historical perspective

Name: Economics, wealth and happiness in historical perspective
Brand: Vita e Pensiero
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Article

Magazine

RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI SCIENZE SOCIALI

Issue

RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI SCIENZE SOCIALI 2015 - 1

Title

Economics, wealth and happiness in historical perspective

Author

Luigino Bruni

Publisher

Vita e Pensiero

Format

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07-2015

Issn

0035-676X (print) | 1827-7918 (digital)

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The paper claims that the ‘‘happiness transformation problem’’, i.e. how wealth becomes wellbeing, was a central point in some streams of the economic tradition. In particular, the author shows that from Malthus to Pigou this economic tradition paid special attention to non-economic domains important for human happiness and that are affected by market choices. Marshall is seen as the bridge between the classical reflection on happiness in the eighteenth century and the recent debates on the ‘‘paradoxes of happiness’’, an issue that is becoming more and more important, not only in moral philosophy, but also in economics and for relevant policy implications.