This book is a welcome consolidation and extension of the recent expanding debates on happiness and economics. Happiness and economics, as a new field for research, is now of pivotal interest particularly to welfare economists and psychologists. This Handbook provides an unprecedented forum for...

The long-standing interest in increasing returns stems from the attempt to identify causal relationships internal to the production system that would provide adequate explanations for the improvement of technical practice and production organization. What is missing both in classical and modern...

A review essay on T. Sakamoto and H. Tanaka (eds), The Rise of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment, London and New York, Routledge, 2003, pp. xii+215.

The dichotomy between intended and unintended outcomes of individual and collective action is central to political economy. It concerns the relationship of markets and states and their link to the constitution of society. As such, this dichotomy points to the patterns of connectivity that...