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...

Historisch-soziale Grundlagen des Wirtschaftens und des Wirtschaftsdenkens von einer der bedeutendsten Wirtschaftssoziologinnen schlechthin. Das Buch wendet sich dennoch als Lehrbuch vorwiegend an Studenten.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction; 2: Luxury in Historical Context; 3: Industrialism, Materialism and the Birth of a Consumer Society; 4: Mass Production, Mass Consumption and New Consumers of Luxury; 5: At Home in...

Main description: "Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's leading economic...

Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought."" So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's leading economic historians--takes an...