`After many years of neglect, the topic of happiness is returning to the   agenda of economics. This wide-ranging collection of papers considers the   significance of happiness for economic theory and policy, drawing on ideas   from psychology, philosophy and history as well as economics itself. In   stressing the importance of sociality as a source of happiness, the authors   open up new territory for social science.'    - Robert Sugden, University of East Anglia, UK    This book is a welcome consolidation and extension of the recent expanding   debates on happiness and economics. Happiness and economics, as a new field   for research, is now of pivotal interest particularly to welfare economists   and psychologists.      This Handbook provides an unprecedented forum for discussion of the   economic issues relating to happiness. It reviews the more recent   literature and offers the interested reader an insight into the vast scope   of the field in terms of the theory, its applications and also experimental   design. The Handbook also gives substantial indications as to the future   direction of research in the field, with particular regard to policy   applications and developing an economics of interpersonal relations which   includes reciprocity and social interaction theory.    Reflecting the contribution of a major research activity on the study of   happiness, economics and interpersonal relations, this book will be of   great interest to economists and psychologists in general, as well as   welfare economists and postgraduate scholars of cooperation, welfare,   social planning, non-profit, corporate social responsibility and related   fields.     Contributors include:  S. Bartolini, L. Becchetti, M. Bianchi, S.A.   Borrego, L. Bruni, M. Chekola, M. Cogoy, D. Cox, S. Cremaschi, L. Crivelli,   J. de Jesus Garcia, G. Domenighetti, S.A. Drakopoulos, M. Filippini, N.C.   Fuentes, G. Grimalda, M.E.L. Guidi, M. Guillen-Royo, M.D. Gutiérrez, J.   Hirata, J.R. Irwin, A.D. Karayiannis, S. Marzetti Dall'Aste Brandolini, A.   Peiró, V. Pelligra, P.L. Porta, N. Powdthavee, M. Pugno, R. Raghunathan,   L. Sacconi, M. Santoro, R. Scazzieri, O. Stark, A. Tapia, M. Vendrik, G.   Vivenza, L. Zarri

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