Economics and Happiness: Framing the Analysis

Luigino Bruni

PIer Luigi Porta

OUP Oxford

Economists have long laboured under the misapprehension that all humans exist as rational beings that find happiness in maximizing their personal utility. This impressive volume presents an historical review of the evolution of economic thought, from economic philosophy to contemporary mathematical economics, and its critique of how the human and social dimensions of economics have been lost in this evolutionary process.  Examining the crucial period in the late eighteenth century when economists such Smith and Genovesi tried to reconcile the classical tradition of Civil humanism emerging commercial society, this key book analyses the impact that the hedonist approach to economics had in removing the ethical conception of happiness. In addition, it focuses on the impact that J.S. Mill, Wicksteed and Pareto had in shifting methodological thinking away from an emphasis on civil happiness. Simply put, this book is essential reading for economists everywhere.

Civil Happiness

Business & Money

Economics

Routledge

The Charismatic Principle in Social Life (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

Writings of Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement

Paradise: Reflections on Chiara Lubich's Mystical Journey

Religion & Spirituality

Brendan Leahy

et.al.

Chiara Lubich

Donald W. Mitchell

Peter Casarella

Thomas Norris

David L. Schindler

Piero Coda

Hubertus Blaumeiser

Antonio Baggio

Bernard Callebaut

Gérard Rossé

Christian Books & Bibles

New City Press

The crisis that market societies are undergoing is essentially a crisis of relationships. It originates in the illusion that the market, through the actions of an invisible hand operating in impersonal market relationships, can present us a good common life that is exempt from the possibility of being wounded by the other.
Luigino Bruni offers an authoritative and innovative look at the cultural and anthropological premises underlying contemporary market economies and their promises. He suggests that the market has betrayed its promises, offering the prevalence of unhappiness in our cities as evidence, and points out the need for balancing the increasing tendency toward isolation with the human need for relationships.
Bruni proposes gratuitousness -- free and open reciprocity, quite different from altruism -- as a means of maximizing the benefits of the market (and the equality and freedom that market contracts propose) without losing the joy that comes from putting the relationship with the others in the market as the primary good.

The Wound and the Blessing: Economics, Relationships, and Happiness

Foreword by Charles M. A. Clark

Economia civile. Efficienza, equità, felicità pubblica

Il Mulino

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Luigino Bruni. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Luigino Bruni