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On the Foundations of Happiness in Economics

Reinterpreting Tibor Scitovsky

By: Maurizio Pugno

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On the Foundations of Happiness in Economics

Reinterpreting Tibor Scitovsky

By: Maurizio Pugno

Economic growth has extraordinarily increased the availability of market goods to satisfy people’s need for comfort, but at the same time it has also raised great challenges to their working and family life. Will people learn the skill necessary to cope with these challenges and draw full enjoyment from economic growth? On the Foundations of Happiness in Economics explores this question by examining the work of Tibor Scitovsky, author of The Joyless Economy. Given the recent rise of behavioural economics and happiness economics, this book aims to show how far ahead of his time Scitovsky was in his work on individual welfare (or wellbeing). It traces the evolution of Scitovsky’s original thought, arguing that he has been frequently misunderstood, before undertaking formal analysis in order to demonstrate how far his work anticipated or even went beyond the recent advances in economics. This volume also explores Scitovsky’s work in the context of Keynes’ work on wellbeing, offering a new perspective on welfare in the history of economic thought. Other issues discussed in this text regard creativity and social skills, hedonism and eudaimonia, parenting and education, addiction, work/leisure balance, policies for happiness, paternalism, and the quality of economic growth. This book addresses a variety of readers, such as those interested in the history of economics, as well as students and researchers concerned with the economic theory of well-being.

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1317560841

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Well-being and Growth in Advanced Economies

The Need to Prioritise Human Development

By: Maurizio Pugno

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Well-being and Growth in Advanced Economies

The Need to Prioritise Human Development

By: Maurizio Pugno

Economic growth is generally regarded by governments and most ordinary people as a panacea for all problems, including issues caused by the COVID pandemic. But this raises an important question: is further growth in advanced economies able to increase well-being once people’s basic subsistence needs are met? Some advanced market economies, e.g. the United States, have exhibited a decline in well-being, both subjectively and objectively measured, over several decades despite seeing economic growth during the same period. This book provides an original and comprehensive explanation: economic growth, as driven by market forces, induces people, through both the demand- and supply-side channels, to pursue command over more material resources, and this weakens the self-generation of capabilities, putting well-being at risk of deterioration. The book argues, with the support of a variety of evidence, that the challenge can be overcome if governments’ policies and people’s choices pursue, as their ultimate goal, ‘fundamental human development’ on an evolutionary basis: the development of the capability of a typical person to conceive and share with others new purposes, to pursue them individually or collectively, and thus to contribute to building human culture. If such human development is prioritised, it makes people satisfied with their lives and resistant to adverse shocks, and it can even shape the pattern of economic growth. By contrast, if economic growth is prioritised, it tends to weaken and impoverish fundamental human development, and consequently people’s well-being and social cohesion. With this volume, readers will find an answer to a problem that is both urgent and long-term, both individual and societal. The work makes a substantial contribution to the literature on wellbeing, the economics of happiness, human capital and growth, and the capability approach.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000745813

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Transport of Energetic Electrons in Solids

Computer Simulation with Applications to Materials Analysis and Characterization

By: Maurizio Dapor

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Transport of Energetic Electrons in Solids

Computer Simulation with Applications to Materials Analysis and Characterization

By: Maurizio Dapor

This book describes the computational methods most frequently used to deal with the interaction of charged particles, notably electrons, with condensed matter. Both elastic and inelastic scattering phenomena are discussed, and methods for calculating the relevant cross sections are explained in a rigorous but simple way. It provides readers with all the information they need in order to write their own Monte Carlo code and to simulate the transport of fast particles in condensed matter. Many numerical and experimental examples are presented throughout the book. The updated and extended fourth edition features ab initio methods for calculating dielectric function and energy loss function. Non-relativistic partial wave expansion method for calculating the differential elastic scattering cross section is also included in this new edition. It represents a very useful introduction to the relativistic partial wave expansion method, i.e., to the Mott theory, already discussed in the previous editions of this book. Further details about the effects of spin-polarization on the differential elastic scattering cross section are included in this new edition. The multiple reflection method is extended to the general case of a system composed of a set of layers of different materials and thicknesses. Analytical expressions are provided for calculating the backscattering coefficient of multilayers. New results are presented, notably about Monte Carlo simulations of reflection electron energy loss spectra and of the radial dose deposited along the track of ions impinging on materials.

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Springer Nature

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3031372425

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9783031372421

Income dispersion and economic crises

By: Maurizio Pasquino

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Income dispersion and economic crises

By: Maurizio Pasquino

Current economic theories do not provide the elements to understand the causes and processes that provoke economic crises. In this book, Maurizio Pasquino explains the underlying reasons and introduces the new concept of income dispersion. Income dispersion provides a much broader vision of how an economic system works, setting the bases for a more efficient way of identifying and resolving the problems of the society in which we live today.

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Booksprint

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8824958168

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noi le simpatiche canaglie di via Galatea (e le loro straordinarie avventure)

By: Maurizio Magnanti

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noi le simpatiche canaglie di via Galatea (e le loro straordinarie avventure)

By: Maurizio Magnanti

Narrativa. autobiografico, sulle avventure, basate su quella che è stata la mia incredibile infanzia.

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Lulu.com

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1291955682

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Political Institutions in Italy

By: Maurizio Cotta,Luca Verzichelli

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Political Institutions in Italy

By: Maurizio Cotta,Luca Verzichelli

This book addresses a number of themes, paradoxes and problems inherent to Italian politics, and considers the relationship between the Italian domestic system and the international system. It focuses on changes that have occurred in the last 10-15 years, contextualised within a longer historical framework, including the post-war period.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199284709

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Unions, Change and Crisis

French and Italian Union Strategy and the Political Economy, 1945-1980

By: Peter Lange,George Ross,Maurizio Vannicelli

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Unions, Change and Crisis

French and Italian Union Strategy and the Political Economy, 1945-1980

By: Peter Lange,George Ross,Maurizio Vannicelli

First published in 1982, Unions, Change and Crisis represents the first detailed, comparative, historical and theoretically grounded study of two of the major trade union movements of Europe. It brings together the results of the first part of the first major study from Harvard University’s Centre for European Studies. The book explores, first individually and then comparatively, the evolution of the French and Italian Union movements through the end of the 1970s. It will be of particular interest for students of trade unions, industrial relations and political economy in France and Italy, but also those interested in the comparative analysis of advanced industrial democracies more generally.

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Routledge

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1317230876

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Prophetic Times

Visions of Emancipation in the History of Italy

By: Maurizio Viroli

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Prophetic Times

Visions of Emancipation in the History of Italy

By: Maurizio Viroli

Throughout Italy's history, prophetic voices-poets, painters, philosophers-have bolstered the struggle for social and political emancipation. These voices denounced the vices of compatriots and urged them toward redemption. They gave meaning to suffering, helping to prevent moral surrender; they provided support, with pathos and anger, which set into motion the moral imagination, culminating in redemption and freedom. While the fascist regime attempted to enlist Mazzini and the prophets of the Risorgimento in support of its ideology, the most perceptive anti-fascist intellectual and political leaders composed eloquent prophetic pages to sustain the resistance against the totalitarian regime. By the end of the 1960s, no prophet of social emancipation has been able to move the consciences of the Italians. In this Italian story, then, is our story, the world's story, inspiration for social and political emancipation everywhere.

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Cambridge University Press

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100923319X

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On the Foundations of Happiness in Economics

Reinterpreting Tibor Scitovsky

By: Maurizio Pugno

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Reinterpreting Tibor Scitovsky

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Well-being and Growth in Advanced Economies

The Need to Prioritise Human Development

By: Maurizio Pugno

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Well-being and Growth in Advanced Economies

The Need to Prioritise Human Development

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Book's by Maurizio Pugno

On the Foundations of Happiness in Economics

On the Foundations of Happiness in Economics

Well-being and Growth in Advanced Economies

Well-being and Growth in Advanced Economies

Transport of Energetic Electrons in Solids

Transport of Energetic Electrons in Solids

Income dispersion and economic crises

Income dispersion and economic crises

noi le simpatiche canaglie di via Galatea (e le loro straordinarie avventure)

noi le simpatiche canaglie di via Galatea (e le loro straordinarie avventure)

Political Institutions in Italy

Political Institutions in Italy

Unions, Change and Crisis

Unions, Change and Crisis

Prophetic Times

Prophetic Times

On the Foundations of Happiness in Economics

On the Foundations of Happiness in Economics

Well-being and Growth in Advanced Economies

Well-being and Growth in Advanced Economies

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