Economics of Human Happiness (1933) is a loose treatise on how to be happy and civilized. The function of applied economics is to make wants coincident and the average citizen doesn’t vote for a particular fiscal system but rather for a possibility of greater happiness. This book examines the various -isms to prescribe a better way forward.
1. The Decay of Happiness 2. The Rise of the Rich 3. The Tyranny of Trade 4. The Degradation of Parliament 5. The Economist Emerges 6. The Meaning of Marxism 7. The Lesson Malthus 8. The Illusion of 1906 9. The Human Needs 10. 1914 and 1926 11. From Boom to Crisis 12. Mr Norman and M. Kreuger 13. The New Tyrants 14. The Return to Humanism
Biography
Collin Brooks
