In many countries, the GDP share of the public sector increases with per capita income but happiness fails to register a long-term upward trend. Most objective indicators of the quality of life also do not correlate positively with income but improve with time associated with the advancement of...

Argenziano and Gilboa (2019) obtain a very important result ‘that consumer choice data alone are sufficient … [to] provide a microfoundation for a weighted utilitarian social welfare function that reflects common moral intuitions about interpersonal comparisons of utilities’. This paper...