Despite rising popularity of subjective well-being (SWB) as a proxy for utility, its relationship with income is still unresolved. Against the background of debates around the 'Easterlin paradox', this paper seeks a compromise between two positions: one that insists on individual relative...

Despite rising popularity of subjective well-being (SWB) as a proxy for utility, its relationship with income is still unresolved. Against the background of debates around the ‘Easterlin paradox’, this paper seeks a compromise between two positions: one that insists on individual relative...

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the development in income distribution and outlines its major long-term trends of 23 countries worldwide. These countries are clustered in four groups covering the core advanced, the Nordic, the emerging, and the least developed economies of the...

Part I: Economic and Environmental Aspects of Conservation Capital -- Chapter 1. The Role of Conservation Capital in Developing Economies: A Static General Equilibrium Analysis with Dynamics (Tonmoy Chatterjee) -- Chapter 2. Generating Appropriate Policies to Minimize Environmental Pollution in...