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Degrowth and the Paradoxes of Happiness

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  • Serge Latouche

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The paper investigates the movement of reduction and involution of happiness that started in the Age of Enlightenment and continues today: from the emergence of the idea of happiness to the reduction to its economic definition (GDP per capita), then from the criticism of wealth indicators to the rediscovery of the goal of buen vivir, of “frugal affluence”, of joyful sobriety, in the context of “prosperity without growth”.

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  • Serge Latouche, 2020. "Degrowth and the Paradoxes of Happiness," Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics, History and Political Science, Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Torino (Italy), vol. 54(1), pages 133-152, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:fle:journl:v:54:y:2020:i:1:p:133-152
    DOI: 10.26331/1103
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