Happiness: Lessons from a New Science

By R. Layard. 2005

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Happiness and public choice (2010, background): “1 For surveys of the study of happiness in economics, see Oswald (1997), Frey and Stutzer (2002a, 2002b), van Praag and Ferrer-i-Carbonell (2004), Layard (2005) , Di Tella and MacCulloch (2006), Dolan et al. (2008) and Frey (2008).”
Hedonic adaptation and the role of decision and experience utility in public policy (2008, background): “…public policy should be guided by a consideration of Benthamite experience utility rather than preference-based decision utility, a perspective that has gained many followers.4 Layard (2005), for example, argues that maximizing happiness rather than income should be the goal of government policy.”
Economic Analysis for Ecosystem Service Assessments (2011, methodology): “More compatible with the approach of economic analysis is the recent rise in research into direct measures of subjective wellbeing and happiness (Kahneman et al., 1997; Layard, 2005; Oswald and Wu, 2010).”
Environmentally efficient well-being: Is there a Kuznets curve? (2012, background): “It is consistent with early (Easterlin, 1974) and recent moves in economics away from seeing income or gross domestic product per capita as strongly equivalent to utility or well-being and toward exploring other measures, including subjective well-being (Brooks, 2008; Di Tella & MacCulloch, 2006; Eu”
Marriage, Cohabitation, and Happiness: A Cross‐National Analysis of 27 Countries (2012, background): “Although research has found that higher GDP is not necessarily related to higher happiness across countries (Layard 2005), there is some evidence of an overall positive association between income and happiness within countries (Blanchflower and Oswald 2004; Clark and Oswald 1996; Easterlin 2001).”
Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence (2013, positive): “Microeconomic equations consistently show that unemployment has a significant and sizable negative impact on happiness (Frey and Stutzer 2002, Layard 2005, Oswald 1997).”
Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism (2009, neutral): “…and comparability of the responses to such questions (Clark et al., 2006; DiTella and MacCulloch, 2006; Frey and Stutzer, 2002ab; Graham, forthcoming; Layard, 2005; van Praag and Ferrer-i-Carbonell, 2004; van Praag and Frijters, 1999; 3 Simon Kuznets’ insistence that GDP is a subjective, not…”
Social marketing: A pathway to consumption reduction? (2009, background): “As Layard (2005) observes, until individuals' annual earnings reach $20,000 their happiness levels increase in proportion to what they earn.”
Evolutionary thinking in environmental economics (2007, positive): “The reason is simple: improvements in relative income and welfare come down to a zero-sum game – one person loses what another gains (Layard, 2005).”
A computational and neural model of momentary subjective well-being (2014, methodology): “We performed a small-volume correction using 8-mm spheres at MNI coordinates from prior studies (5, 6) (left ventral striatum: −10, 12, −8; right ventral striatum: 10, 12, −8; right anterior insula: 39, 5, −14).”
Income, relational goods and happiness (2011, background): “To investigate the nexus among these three variables we ﬁrst need to 5 Support for the relative income hypothesis may be found in several papers starting from the seminal contribution of Dusenberry (1949), up to the more recent contributions of Frank (2005) and Layard (2005).”