This book provides a coherent description of the main concepts and statistical methods used to analyse economic performance. The focus is on measures of performance that are of practical relevance to policy makers. Most, if not all, of these measures can be viewed as measures of productivity...

1. Happiness in economics : the roots and perspectives of a research programme -- 2. Scitovsky's research programme on human welfare -- 3. Enjoying creative activity by developing life skill -- 4. Comfort vs. creative activity as two sources of well-being -- 5. Addiction : from well-being to...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Neoclassicism and Dissent, 1890–1925 -- 2. New Tracks for Economic Theory, 1926–1939 -- Introduction -- 3. Hicksian Keynesianism: Dominance and Decline -- 4. Keynesian Econometric Concepts: Consumption Functions, Investment Functions,...

This book introduces the research agenda of relational economics as a political economy for the governance of local and global economic transactions in modern societies. It analyses the mechanisms of global value creation and production networks by studying cooperation in intra- and inter-firm...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Importance of Climate Change in Economics -- Chapter 3: Mainstream Climate Economics -- Chapter 4: What is Problematic about Mainstream Climate Economics? -- Chapter 5: Why We Do Not Have More Pluralism -- Chapter 6: Climate Change and Responsibility --...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- PART I: 1905-1937 The Makings of an Applied Economist -- Chapter 2 Brilliant Beginnings -- Chapter 3 Cambridge and Fabianism -- Chapter 4 Becoming the World’s Economic Statistician -- Part II: 1937-1952 Australian Idyll -- Chapter 5 Great Southern Land -- Chapter 6...