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.

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The Economics of Human Happiness
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- I The Decay of Happiness
- II The Rise of the Rich
- III The Tyranny of Trade
- IV The Degradation of Parliament
- V The Economist Emerges
- VI The Meaning of Marxism
- VII The Lesson of Malthus
- VIII The Illusion of 1906
- IX The Human Needs
- X 1914 and 1926
- XI From Boom to Crisis
- XII Mr. Norman and M. Kreuger
- XIII The New Tyrants
- XIV The Return to Humanism
- Index
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