Growth, Consumption, and Happiness: Modeling the Easterlin Paradox
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Conspicuous consumption; Happiness; Growth; Easterlin paradox;All these keywords.
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- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
- D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
- E10 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - General
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