Recent developments in the economics of happiness

Reviews of the new approach. What can economists learn from happiness research? / Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer -- Developments in the measurement of subjective well-being / Daniel Kahneman and Alan B. Krueger -- Hedonic psychology and the ambiguities of "welfare" / Mark Kelman -- Economic determinants of subjective well-being. Relative income, happiness, and utility : an explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and other puzzles / Andrew E. Clark, Paul Frijters and Michael A. Shields -- Economic growth and subjective well-being : reassessing the Easterlin Paradox / Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers -- The happiness-income paradox revisited / Richard A. Easterlin [et al.] -- Neighbors as negatives : relative earnings and well-being / Erzo F.P. Luttmer -- The role of income aspirations in individual happiness / Alois Stutzer -- The macroeconomics of happiness / Rafael Di Tella, Robert J. MacCulloch and Andrew J. Oswald -- Social capital and health. The social context of well-being / John F. Helliwell and Robert D. Putnam -- Relational goods, sociability, and happiness / Leonardo Becchetti, Alessandra Pelloni and Fiammetta Rossetti -- Income, health, and well-being around the world : evidence from the Gallup World Poll / Angus Deaton -- Valuing public goods : the life satisfaction approach. Using happiness surveys to value intangibles : the case of airport noise / Bernard M.S. van Praag and Barbara E. Baarsma -- Valuing air quality using the life satisfaction approach / Simon Luechinger -- Utility misprediction and adaptation. Anomalies : utility maximization and experienced utility / Daniel Kahneman and Richard H. Thaler -- Lags and leads in life satisfaction : a test of the baseline hypothesis / Andrew E. Clark [and others] -- Evolutionary efficiency and happiness / Luis Rayo and Gary S. Becker -- Public policy. Happiness and public policy : a challenge to the profession / Richard Layard -- The use of happiness research for public policy / Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer