The Microeconomics of Wellbeing and Sustainability: Recasting the Economic Process

ISBN-13: 9780128160275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 480 str.

Leonardo Becchetti; Luigino Bruni; Stefano Zamagni

Spis treści

1. Economics: What Does It Study, with Which Method, How It Evolved2. The Market3. The Theory of Consumption4. Theory of Production Decisions5. The Perfectly Competitive Market6. Non-Competitive Markets and Game Theory Elements7. New Theories of the Enterprise8. The Well-Being Economics According to Utilitarianism9. The Theory of Homo reciprocans10. Not Only for Profit: Civil Enterprises and Ideal Motive Organizations11. The Social Responsibility of the Company12. Happiness, Relational Goods, Civil Progress13. Growth and Environment in the Era of GlobalisationEpilogue: From Homo oeconomicus to Civil Animal

O autorze

Leonardo Becchetti is professor of Economics and Director of the Master in Development Economics and International Cooperation at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata”. He is among the first 100 authors in the RePEc world ranking for number of journal pages published and "betweenness”, an indicator that measures the degree of proximity among registered authors in the world network. His main research topics are behavioural economics, social capital and social norms, economics of happiness, corporate social responsibility growth and economic wellbeing. Luigino Bruni is Professor of Economics at University LUMSA in Rome and Professor of Civil Economy at the University Institute Sophia (Loppiano). He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Review of Economics and a member of the editorial board of the Review of Social Economy and the International Journal of Happiness and Development. His research concentrates on topics related to ethics and philosophy in economics and more generally rational choice, trust, social capital, and evolutionary game theory. Stefano Zamagni is Vice Director for Italian Affairs for the School of Advanced International Studies Europe and a Senior Adjunct Professor of International Economics. He is also Professor of Economics and former dean of the economics faculty at the University of Bologna. Among his other appointments are Member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Vatican City; Presidente Onorario, Fondazione Italia per il Dono (Milano); member of the board of LUMSA Università, Rome; and member of the scientific board of the doctoral program in economics at the Catholic University of Argentina.