"Friedrich Hayek was the 20th century's most significant free market theorist and over the course of his long career he maintained a sustained critique of the danger that state power poses to individual liberty. In rejecting much of the liberal tradition's concern for social justice and...

"This book revisits Kalecki's theory of the firm to show that it constitutes fertile theoretical ground on which to systematically understand the resultant indeterminacy when firms operate under conditions of radical uncertainty. Within Post-Keynesian economics there is a spectrum of approaches...

Introductory essay : developing an overview as context and future / John Atherton -- Economic theory and happiness / Ian Steedman -- Happiness, welfare and capabilities / Carl-Henric Grenholm -- Happiness through thrift : the contribution of business to human wellbeing / Peter Heslam --...

There is growing evidence that rising levels of prosperity in Western economies since 1945 have not been matched by greater incidences of reported well-being and happiness. Indeed, material affluence is often accompanied instead by greater social and individual distress. A growing literature...