Subjective well-being is a complex phenomenon coevolving with events in important do-mains of life. Panel vector autoregressions are a suitable tool to analyze the underlyingstructure of changes in happiness and its coevolution with changes in income, health, wor-ries, marital status and...

While there is little doubt that innovations drive economic growth, their effects on well-being areless clear. One reason for this are ambivalent effects of innovations on well-being that result frompecuniary and technological externalities of innovations, argued to be inevitable. Another...

The debate on the ontological foundations of evolutionary economics has reached a stagewhere discussions of these foundations are increasingly leading to the conclusion that there isa need to move from considerations of the general principles of evolutionary theory to thedevelopment of concrete...