frequently mentioned topic of economics and happiness. In the last few years the number of publications related to happiness from …

literature on the topic. Economics is often being criticised by its opponents for the use of unrealistic assumptions. On the … contrary, my claim is that if economics has anything to contribute to legal analysis, it is above all exactly these assumptions … expressly what our world is not like, economics alerts the lawyer to imperfections and frictions that he or she all too often …