The paper investigates the relation between social capital and life satisfaction focusing on the distinction between bonding and bridging. Using the latest version of the combined World and European Values Surveys, the authors first address the question of measurement of social capital by means...

Scitovsky is known as a forerunner of behavioural economics simply because he drew heavily on psychology and claimed that people's choices may be "joyless" (Scitovsky, The joyless economy, 1976). However, a careful reformulation of his analysis shows that he anticipated a number of insights...

1. Happiness in economics : the roots and perspectives of a research programme -- 2. Scitovsky's research programme on human welfare -- 3. Enjoying creative activity by developing life skill -- 4. Comfort vs. creative activity as two sources of well-being -- 5. Addiction : from well-being to...