Readership: Academics, researchers and students of behavioural, welfare and development economics. Scholars of political science, psychology and philosophy. Policymakers and general readers.The book reviews the theory and concepts of happiness, explaining how these concepts underpin a line of...

About the author -- Acknowledgments -- Notes to the reader -- Prologue: premises and problems -- Studying person and property in global perspective -- Force fields of persons and properties -- The emergence of the propertied self -- Early responses to the rise of the propertied self --...

Friedrich Hayek was awarded the 1974 Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences for his contributions to the analysis of money and the business cycle, and for his penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena. Hayek was a polymath: he systematically analyzed...