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The value to the environmental movement of the new literature on the economics of happiness
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Oswald, Andrew J. (2012) The value to the environmental movement of the new literature on the economics of happiness. Working Paper. Coventry: Economics Department, University of Warwick. Warwick economics research paper series (TWERPS), Volume 2012 (Number 997). (Unpublished)
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Abstract
Many environmentalists have not yet discovered and understood the value to them of a new research literature. That literature is the economics of happiness. It offers a potentially important tool for future policy debate. In particular, this literature offers a defensible way to calculate the costs and benefits of the true happiness value of ‘green’ variables – and to weigh
those against the happiness value to people of extra income and consumption. Some of the latest research findings turn out to accord well with environmentalists’ intuitions: green variables seem to have large direct effects on human well-being; society would arguably be
better to concentrate more on environmental aims and less on monetary or materialistic ones; greater consumption of things in Western society cannot be expected to make us much happier.
| Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Environmental economics, Economics -- Psychological aspects, Happiness, Well-being, Quality of life, Environmentalism -- Economic aspects | ||||
| Series Name: | Warwick economics research paper series (TWERPS) | ||||
| Publisher: | Economics Department, University of Warwick | ||||
| Place of Publication: | Coventry | ||||
| Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 2012 | ||||
| Number: | Number 997 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 16 | ||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||
| Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) |
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