psychology, we find out that non-satiation is indeed not a natural feature of human beings, but a challenge to their happiness … and a potentially pathological sign. The distinction between needs and requirements provides a new and solid ground on … which we can discuss the quality of human needs, which is, according to Keynes, a key concept to define what the ‘economic …

welfare-based fiscal rules for harnessing resource windfalls in developed and developing economies …

We propose a new criterion which reflects both the concern for welfare (utility) and the concern for rights in the … the set of all feasible thresholds, accounting for the “cost in terms of welfare” of achieving these rights. We apply the …

that the welfare functions traditionally used in climate economics are ill-equipped to deal with climate catastrophes in … which population size changes. Drawing on recent work in population ethics I propose an alternative welfare framework with … normatively desirable properties, which has the effect of dampening the contribution of catastrophes to welfare. …

happiness inequality in happiness studies. We plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up a new …