Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. Dotan Leshem (2014), 'The Ancient Art of Economics', European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 21 (2), 201-29 -- 2. Constant J. Mews and Ibrahim Abraham (2007), 'Usury and Just Compensation: Religious and Financial Ethics in Historical...

"The powerful theorems of welfare economics operate under a range of assumptions. Two of the most significant are the existence of competitive markets for all goods and services - including futures markets - and the unbounded rationality of all economic agents who act independently to maximize...

Reviews of the new approach. What can economists learn from happiness research? / Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer -- Developments in the measurement of subjective well-being / Daniel Kahneman and Alan B. Krueger -- Hedonic psychology and the ambiguities of "welfare" / Mark Kelman -- Economic...