terms 'politics in time'. We draw on classical explanatory tools of comparative political economy, including structures of … major problem consequent upon the global financial crisis. This leads us to re-evaluate the literature on fiscal … interest intermediation, the role of ideas in shaping the set of feasible policy choices, and the situation of national …

We present the first attempt to construct a long-run historical measure of subjective wellbeing using language corpora … to the 1970s, our measure goes back at least 200 years further. Our measure correlates positively with existing wellbeing … negatively and independently from the effect of life expectancy. There is no correlation with GDP. Econometric analysis of the …

We present the first attempt to construct a long-run historical measure of subjective wellbeing using language corpora …, Italy and Spain). To highlight some results, we find a positive short-run effect for GDP and life expectancy on subjective … wellbeing. An increase of 1% life expectancy is equivalent to more than 5% increase in yearly GDP. One year of internal conflict …