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Economics, Religion and Happiness: God, Mammon and the Search for Spiritual and Financial Wealth: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

Autor Vani Kant Borooah
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 oct 2023
Most books on happiness are concerned with answering, in their diverse ways, a basic question: how should I live? Such books assume, however, that the path to happiness lies entirely within one’s control. Happiness is simply a matter of doing certain things and refraining from doing certain other things. This book, however, takes a different view. It is that happiness is not always within our control but, instead, prey to the attitudes and actions of others. Following Jean-Paul Sartre’s aphorism, “hell is other people”, the broad theme of this book is that “unhappiness is other people”.
In the language of economics, “other” people, through their attitudes and actions, create externalities – often negative - which serve to make “us” unhappy.  The instruments for creating such externalities are intolerance and feelings of envy/superiority.  This book expands on this theme in respect of three areas: religion, money, and prejudice.  It is fair to say the existing (un)happiness literature, particularly in economics, does not take many of these externalities into account. Instead, the focus is, firstly, on identifying the factors, internal to oneself, that contribute to personal happiness and, secondly, on measuring the relative strength of their contribution. By contrast, an analysis of the externalities that people impose upon others lies at the heart of this book.
Economics, Religion and Happiness will primarily appeal to students, academics and researchers across economics, psychology, philosophy, and sociology, and will also find an audience among those interested in exploring issues related to happiness in greater depth.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032371351
ISBN-10: 1032371358
Pagini: 162
Ilustrații: 27 Tables, black and white; 12 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Development Economics

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

List of figures. List of tables. Preface. Setting the Scene. What Makes People Happy? Objective and Subjective Measures of Happiness. Religious Hatred and Religion-Based Violence. Income and Job Satisfaction. Prejudice. Conclusions. Index.

Notă biografică

Vani Kant Borooah is Emeritus Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Ulster, UK.

Descriere

This book takes the view that happiness is not always within our control but, instead, prey to the attitudes and actions of others. Following Jean-Paul Sartre’s aphorism, “hell is other people”, the broad theme of this book is that “unhappiness is other people”.