This article discusses the crowding-out effect and its correlate, the “crowding-in effect”, with special regard to empirical validity. It is demonstrated that these effects are empirically well-founded and have been observed in many different and important areas of the economy and society

This paper focuses on the incentives by governments to manipulate statistics, not on techniques how to do so. I wish to contribute to explaining when, where and to what extent the governments tend to falsify official data. This issue is important for three reasons: (1) Manipulating statistics...

Economics as a Science of Human Behaviour champions the view that economics can serve as a paradigm for all of the social sciences by dealing with actual problems of society. Bruno S. Frey provides insights and improves our understanding of human behaviour, while suggesting solutions to social...

Curiously, economists, whose discipline has much to do with human well-being, have shied away from factoring the study of happiness into their work. Happiness, they might say, is an ''unscientific'' concept. This is the first book to establish empirically the link between happiness and...