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Introduction
The economics of happiness is a unique approach to assessing the subjective-well-being of individuals within the context of economic theory. The economics of happiness utilises expansive notions of utility and combines economic measurements with those more commonly used by psychologists to assess the general life-satisfaction felt by people. The economics of happiness is a broader stake of behavioural economics that seeks to understand the pecuniary and non-pecuniary factors that lead to the maximization of happiness.
The goal of this essay is to develop a greater understanding of the concept of the economics of happiness. It will show how and why this type of theory goes a long way in explaining the type of choices made by individuals. This essay will portray that a return to the theories of Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham and John-Stuart Mill have been made by modern day economists like Richard Easterlin, and so, while being a relatively new branch of economic study,......

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