James Ahiakpor's critique of our 2002 work on the relationship between a certain 1932 Harvard Memorandum on anti-depression policies and the 1932 Harris Foundation Manifesto dealing with the same issues misses the significance of these documents, and of the relationships between them, both for...

Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for...

Neoliberalismus ist eine Sackgasse. Wirtschafts- und gesellschaftspolitische Alternativen sind bitter nötig. Die Mehrzahl der bereits vorhandenen Gegenentwürfe ist moralisch oder utopisch. Schon die Forderung nach einer gerechteren Verteilung von Einkommen und Vermögen verheddert sich in der...

Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for...

Vortrag von Dr. Jens Weidmann, Präsident der Deutschen Bundesbank