Meritocracy is gaining momentum in public discourse, being close to the determinants of people’s demand of social justice (equality of opportunity, social mobility). Conversely, in Academia meritocracy is the object of harsh critiques. The meritocratic rhetoric brings people to overlook the...

In mainstream business and economics, prizes such as the Presidential Medal of Freedom are understood as special types of incentives, with the peculiar features of being awarded in public, and of having largely symbolic value. Informed by both historical considerations and philosophical...

1. Introduction / Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta -- 2. Happiness and social institutions / Amartya Sen -- Part I. Quality of life -- 3. New frontiers: societal measures of subjective well-being for input to policy / Ed Diener and Louis Tay -- 4. Linking happiness to health: comparisons...

The 'grammar of trust' is one of the most explored loci in behavioural and experimental economics. This experimental study aims at contributing to the understanding of new dimensions of trust by exploring how risky trust may foster a trustee's behavioural change. It investigates trustee's...