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Happiness: Between What We Want and What We Need

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  • Situngkir, Hokkt

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The paper presents a very simple toy model that is simulated to experience some aspects related to what is it people want and need when related to the social happiness. By outlining some short discussions related to the distinguishing of what we call “want” and “need”, we see how both micro-social aspects may emerge the happiness as well as the urge to innovate and affinity to the collective creativity and social progress.

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  • Situngkir, Hokkt, 2011. "Happiness: Between What We Want and What We Need," MPRA Paper 31094, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    • D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
    • C43 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Index Numbers and Aggregation
    • C00 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - General - - - General
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • Z10 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - General
    • C70 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - General
    • H00 - Public Economics - - General - - - General
    • M50 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - General
    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics
    • D87 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Neuroeconomics

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