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Economics and Happiness$
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Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta

Print publication date: 2005

Print ISBN-13: 9780199286287

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2006

DOI: 10.1093/0199286280.001.0001

Introduction

Chapter:
(p. 1 ) Introduction
Source:
Economics and Happiness
Author(s):

Luigino Bruni

Pier Luigi Porta (Contributor Webpage)

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/0199286280.003.0001

This chapter reviews happiness literature with some considerable attempts to trace its sources in retrospect. It contributes to the possible solutions to the paradoxes of happiness. Reciprocity and relationality are suggested as new directions of research.

Keywords:   relationality, reciprocity, hedonism, eudaimonia

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