Introductory essay : developing an overview as context and future / John Atherton -- Economic theory and happiness / Ian Steedman -- Happiness, welfare and capabilities / Carl-Henric Grenholm -- Happiness through thrift : the contribution of business to human wellbeing / Peter Heslam --...

Postcolonial readings of the early colonial history of an industrialized border city : legacies of conquest -- The invention of borderlands geography : what do Aztlán and Tenochtitlán have to do with Ciudad Juárez/paso del norte? -- The problem of color in Mexico and on the U.S.-Mexico border...

Foundations -- The themes of legacies, logics, logistics -- "Toiling ingenuity": food regulation in Britain and Nigeria -- Public economic cultures -- "The craving for intelligibility": speech and silence on the economy under structural adjustment and military rule in Nigeria (with Laray Denzer)...