**4. Recent proposals of innovative conceptualization of happiness**

Despite the dominance of the utilitarian philosophy and its widespread study through Economic study plans around the globe, there has been a series of alternative proposals to expand the notion of well-being, as we will see in the next sections.

However, this direct relationship and the reduction of well-being to a mere monetary dimension has been questioned by scholars and a series of alternative contributions began to proliferate since the 1970s. In this chapter, we will summarize the different contributions and proposals that contribute to its operationalization (a, b) and widen its conceptualization (c, d), as to know:

