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Four decades of the economics of happiness: where next?

Andrew E. Clark


There has been explosive growth in the analysis of subjective well-being in Economics over the past 40 years. This article reviews some of this growth, and suggests a number of domains in which future research may proceed.


1 April 2018


Review of Income and Wealth 64(2) , pp.245-269, 2018


DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12369

This Journal article is published under the centre's Community Wellbeing programme.

This publication comes under the following theme: Causes and effects of wellbeing