display interesting non-ergodic behavior, hysteresis, oscillations, and comparative dynamics. Finally, in specific example …

The quot;Easterlin paradoxquot; suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average …

utility, and use them to evaluate alternative features and forms of government in large international samples. We find that … capita incomes, in simple correlations and more fully specified models explaining international differences in life … preferences that depends on the level of development. The ability of governments to provide a trustworthy environment, and to …

of a country%u2019s institutions, heterogeneity, and a number of different international indices and rankings. I have … little success; small countries are more open to international trade than large countries, but are not systematically …

measures such as the Human Development Index are, by construction, dominated by long-run trends. Second, a large fraction of …

and practical development of GDP. In this short paper, we focus on one conceptual framework (Benjamin, Heffetz, Kimball …