Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. However, evidence is emerging that late in life well-being declines considerably. Using long-term longitudinal data of deceased participants in national samples from Germany, the UK, and the US, we examine...

Aus dem Vorwort: "Zum ersten Male wird hier der Versuch gemacht, die 1697 erschienene Schrift "Essay on Projects" von Daniel Defoe zu würdigen. Werner Sombart war der erste, der auf die große Bedeutung des Essays als einer sehr wichtigen Quelle für den Anbruch der Weltepoche des Kapitalismus...

This study shows how aesthetics and economics have been combined in a great work of literature. Widely acknowledged as one of the great English novels, Middlemarch was published at a time which saw the emergence of a commodity-based culture. Frost examines the history of Middlemarch's...