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...

På sin vis kan man betragte hele Keynes’ forfatterskab som en langstrakt kamp for at formulere et relevant alternativ til den herskende ortodoksi. Som bekendt kom dette gennembrud først i 1936 med udgivelsen af The General Theory. I nærværende papir skal der sættes fokus på et af...

Som bekendt er anvendelsen af en matematisk formalisme i mikro- som i makroøkonomisk teori i dag særdeles udbredt. Herved hævdes det ofte, at økonomi som fagdisciplin betragtet har vundet en uomtvistelig videnskabelig status, der bringer økonomi i en klasse for sig blandt de...

In this paper I am trying to provide the reader with a brief overview of contemporary discussion about recently frequently mentioned topic of economics and happiness. In the last few years the number of publications related to happiness from the economic perspective growth exponentially. As the...

The paper reviews (in Czech) the main qualitative tools applied by (micro)economic analysis and surveys the main literature on the topic. Economics is often being criticised by its opponents for the use of unrealistic assumptions. On the contrary, my claim is that if economics has anything to...

Recent developments in economics and the science of law emphasize their cooperation for a better understanding of social structures and interactions, an effective application of social scientific knowledge and a rational evaluation and implementation of social norms. There are, however,...

The rapidly increasing dissemination of scientific results exhibits features of complex systems and brings also to light (seemingly) inconsistencies among research findings. At the same time, there is a fast growing interest in comparative studies and related research tools such as meta-analysis...

A pluralist approach to economics is both necessary from anacademic as well a policy point of view. From an academicviewpoint pluralism can be understood as the outcome ofcompetition and specialization in the search for new ideasthat can deal with imperfections of the real world. From apolicy...