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Economics, wealth and happiness in historical perspective

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  • Luigino Bruni

    (Dipartimento di Scienze economiche, politiche e delle lingue moderne, Libera Universita` Maria SS. Assunta, Roma)

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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.

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  • Luigino Bruni, 2015. "Economics, wealth and happiness in historical perspective," Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, Vita e Pensiero, Pubblicazioni dell'Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, vol. 123(1), pages 41-56.
    • Handle: RePEc:vep:journl:y:2015:v:123:i:1:p:41-56
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