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William Stanley Jevons and Francis Ysidro Edgeworth: Two Pioneers of Happiness Economics
[William Stanley Jevons y Francis Ysidro Edgeworth: dos pioneros de la Economía de la Felicidad]

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  • Miren Maite Ansa Eceiza

    (Universidad del País Vasco.)

  • Francisco Gómez García

    (Universidad de Sevilla.)

Abstract

This paper opens up with some issues which are fundamentally relevant to how Happiness Economics studies are presently conducted, and then sets out to show that for prominent neoclassical authors W. S. Jevons and F. Y. Edgeworth the object of Economics was to maximise happiness and that, in this, they coincide with current economists working in this research area. We show that the interest in happiness is not new but leans on a significant economic tradition linked to the Utilitarian philosophy that dates to the second half of the 19th century.

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  • Miren Maite Ansa Eceiza & Francisco Gómez García, 2019. "William Stanley Jevons and Francis Ysidro Edgeworth: Two Pioneers of Happiness Economics [William Stanley Jevons y Francis Ysidro Edgeworth: dos pioneros de la Economía de la Felicidad]," Iberian Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Dpto. Historia e Instituciones Económicas I., vol. 6(2), pages 175-187.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucm:ijohet:v:6:y:2019:i:2:p:175-187
    DOI: 10.5209/ijhe.66195
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    Keywords

    Happiness; Economics of happiness; Neoclassical economics; Utilitarian philosophy.;
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    JEL classification:

    • B13 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Neoclassical through 1925 (Austrian, Marshallian, Walrasian, Wicksellian)
    • B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology

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