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.