Setting the Stage -- Basis of Conventional Economics -- Production and the Public Goods Problem in Capitalism -- Intersection of Capitalism and Anti-Essentialism: The Contradictions Arising from this Encounter -- The Overselling of Globalisation -- The Rise of Religious Economics Model:...

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...