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Happiness Economics and Its Discontents

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  • Nimish Adhia

    (Manhattanville College)

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  • Nimish Adhia, 2017. "Happiness Economics and Its Discontents," Journal of Private Enterprise, The Association of Private Enterprise Education, vol. 32(Spring 20), pages 77-88.
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    4. Radcliff,Benjamin, 2013. "The Political Economy of Human Happiness," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781107644427, September.
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    6. Christopher J. Coyne & Peter J. Boettke, 2006. "Economics and Happiness Research: Insights from Austrian and Public Choice Economics," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Yew-Kwang Ng & Lok Sang Ho (ed.), Happiness and Public Policy, chapter 5, pages 89-105, Palgrave Macmillan.
    7. Martha Nussbaum, 2012. "Who is the happy warrior? Philosophy, happiness research, and public policy," International Review of Economics, Springer;Happiness Economics and Interpersonal Relations (HEIRS), vol. 59(4), pages 335-361, December.
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