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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Maximising Happiness? |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | Working paper series / Institute for Empirical Research in Economics |
| Number | No. 22 |
| ISSN | 1424-0459 |
| Date | 1999 |
| Abstract Text | "The measurement of individual happiness challenges the notion that revealed preferences only reliably reflect individual utility. Reported subjective well-being is a broader concept than traditional decision utility; it also includes concepts like experience and procedural utility. Micro- and macroeconometric happiness functions offer new insights on determinants of life satisfaction. However, one should not leap to the conclusion that happiness should be maximized in the sense of social welfare function maximization. In contrast, happiness research strengthens the validity of an institutional approach such as reflected in the theory of democratic economic policy." |
| Official URL | http://www.econ.uzh.ch/wp.html |
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