General premise -- Theoretical frame -- Innovation, uncertainty, entrepreneurship : modelling the dynamic process of the economy -- Mainstream economics and heterodox economics : a misleading controversy : "necessary" system versus "natural" system -- An explanation of economic change and...

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 --...

Introduction -- The evidence on happiness -- Relative income and happiness -- Happiness and ethics -- Happiness and good development -- Happiness-oriented societal development under the premise of democracy -- Orientation for a knowledgeable world

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...

pt. 1. Freedom and happiness in the light of the Rawlsian opposition -- pt. 2. Freedom and happiness in other traditions of liberalism : toward a reconciliation -- pt. 3. Freedom, happiness and preferences : applied analysis.