Contents: 1 Happiness and wellbeing: past foundations, modern evidence and future paths / Luigino Bruni, Dalila De Rosa and Alessandra Smerilli -- 2 What future happiness research? / Bruno Frey -- PART I HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE ECONOMICS OF HAPPINESS -- 3 Aristotle,...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): George A. Akerlof (1970), 'The Market for 'Lemons': Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 84 (3), August, 488-500 -- Franklin Allen (1984), 'Reputation and Product Quality', RAND Journal of Economics, 15 (3),...

Contents: Introduction -- 1. A brief history of public debt -- 2. Classical theories of public debt -- 3. Keynesian theories of public debt -- 4. Public choice and public debt -- 5. The limits of public debt -- Conclusion -- Index.

Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. Claude d'Aspremont and Louis-André Gérard-Varet (1979), 'Incentives and Incomplete Information', Journal of Public Economics, 11 (1), February, 25-45 -- 2. Jerry Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont (1977), 'Characterization of Satisfactory Mechanisms for...

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, there has been an unprecedented move towards 'rethinking economics' due to the damages generated by the global financial crisis that burst in 2007-2008. Almost a decade after this crisis, policy is still unable to provide all citizens greater...

1. "The Realism of Assumptions Does Matter: Why Keynes-Minsky Theory Must Replace Efficient Market Theory as the Guide to Financial Regulation Policy." In The Oxford Handbook of the Political Economy of Financial Crises, Gerald Epstein and Martin Wolfson, eds. New York: Oxford University Press,...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. Kenneth E. Boulding (1966), 'The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth', in Henry Jarrett (ed.), Environmental Quality In a Growing Economy, Chapter One, Baltimore, MD, USA and London, UK: Johns Hopkins Press, 3-14 -- 2. Herman E. Daly (1974), 'The...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Henry Hansmann (1988), 'Ownership of the Firm', Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, IV (2), Fall, 267-304 -- Paul H. Rubin (1978), 'The Theory of the Firm and the Structure of the Franchise Contract', Journal of Law and Economics, 21 (1), April,...

Contents: Introduction -- Part I Methodological framework and methodology for economic policy as art 1. Why economists aren't as important as garbagemen -- 2. Vision, judgment, and disagreement among economists -- 3. The lost art of economics -- 4. The systemic failure of economic methodologists...

Mark Skidmore and Hideki Toya (2002), 'Do Natural Disasters Promote Long-Run Growth?', Economic Inquiry, 40 (4), October, 664-87 -- Jesús Crespo Cuaresma, Jaroslava Hlouskova and Michael Obersteiner (2008), 'Natural Disasters as Creative Destruction? Evidence from Developing Countries',...