Reporting on cutting-edge advances in economics, this book presents a selection of commentaries that reveal the weaknesses of several core economics concepts. Economics is a vigorous and progressive science, which does not lose its force when particular parts of its theory are empirically...

Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...

Dieses essential beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, was uns Menschen glücklich macht. Bruno S. Frey erläutert Messmethoden, wirtschaftliche Faktoren, soziodemografische Einflüsse sowie politische Dimensionen des Glücks. Steigert ein höheres Einkommen die Zufriedenheit? Wird, wer die Arbeit...