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Capital and Well-Being
Starting
from the assumption that well-being depends not only
on private goods' consumption, but also on the satisfaction
of relational needs, this section focuses
on the role of social interactions and social capital in improving
people's quality of life and in affecting
the agents' behaviour.
Social capital can improve well-being also reducing inequalities,
and fostering the efficiency of both public and spontaneous
mechanisms of social protection. Such topics are considered
more in depth in the sub-sections on Social
capital, public services and the Welfare state, and Social
capital and health. This page is under construction: comments
and suggestions are
welcome.
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Essential readings
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Further readings
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Social capital, public services and the welfare state
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Social capital and health
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Essential
Readings
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Bruni, L. (2002), L’economia e
i paradossi della felicità, in P.L. Sacco e S. Zamagni
(a cura di), Complessità
relazionale e comportamento economico. Materiali per un nuovo
paradigma di razionalità, Bologna, Il Mulino.
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Bruni, L. (2004), A
History of Happiness in Economics, London and New York,
Routledge.
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Bruni, L., Zamagni, S. (2004), Economia
Civile. Efficienza, equità, felicità pubblica,
Bologna, Il Mulino.
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Easterlin, R.A. (2003), Building
a Better Theory of Well-Being, IZA Discussion Paper Series,
n.742.
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Easterlin, R.A. (2003), Explaining
Happiness, Department of Economics, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles.
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Frey, B., Stutzer, A. (2003), What
Can Economists Learn from Happiness Research?, Forthcoming
in the Journal of Economic Literature.
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Frey, B., Stutzer, A. (2003), Economic
Consequences of Mispredicting Utility, Paper
presented at the Conference
on Well-Being and Social Capital, Weatherhead Center
for International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government
November 2003.
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Grootaert (2002) Social
Capital, household welfare and poverty in Indonesia, Policy
Research Working Paper no. 2148, Washington D.C., The World
Bank.
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Gui, B. (2000), Beyond
Transactions: On the Interpersonal Dimension of Economic Reality,
in Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 71, 2, 139-169.
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Heliwell, J. (2001), Social
Capital, The Economy and Well-Being, The Review of Economic
Performance and Progress, 01-3, 43-60.
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Heliwell, J. (2003), How's
Life? Combining Individual and National Variables to Explain
Subjective Well-Being, Economics of Modelling (2003),
vol. 20, pp. 331-360.
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Hollis, M. (1998), Trust Within Reason, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press.
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Inglehart, R. (1999), Trust, Well-being and
Democracy, in Warren, M.E. Democracy
and Trust, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. pp.
88-120.
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Rothstein, B., Stolle, D. (2003), "Social Capital,
Impartiality and the Welfare State: An Institutional Approach",
in
Hooghe, M., Stolle, D. (eds) (2003), Generating
Social Capital: Civil Society and Institutions in Comparative
Perspective, New York, Palgrave.
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Sudgen, R. (2000), Team Preferences, Economics and
Philosophy, n. 16, pp.175-204.
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Further
Readings
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Adriani, F., Becchetti, L. (2003), The
Paradox of Unhappiness of Socially Responsible Consumer and
the Welfare Effects of the Creation of a Fair Trade Market,
Paper presented at the Conference
The Paradoxes of Happiness in Economics, 21-23
March 2003 Department of Economics, University of Milano-Bicocca.
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Alesina, A., Di Tella, R., MacCulloch, R. (2002), Inequality
and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?,
NBER Working Paper No. w8198.
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Anheier, H. (2003), Social
Capital and Life Satisfaction in Europe: A Comparative Analysis,
Paper presented at the Conference
Sustainable Ties in the Information Society, Tilburg
University, March, 2003.
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Antoci,
A., Borghesi, S. (2000), Working
Too Much in a Polluted World: A North-South Evolutionary Model,
Quaderni del Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università
degli Studi di Siena, n. 334.
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Bjørnskov, C. (2003), The
Happy Few: Cross-Country Evidence on Social Capital and Life
Satisfaction, Kyklos (2003), vol. 56 (1), pp. 3-16.
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Blanchflower,
D.G., Oswald, A.J. (2000), Well-Being
Over Time in Britain and the USA, NBER Working Paper No.
w7487.
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Blanchflower,
D.G., Oswald, A.J. (2003), Money,
Sex and Happiness: An Empirical Study, NBER Working Paper
No. w10499.
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Boes,
S., Winkelmann, R. (2004), Income
and Happiness: New Results from Generalized Tresholds and
Sequential Models, University of Zurich, Socioeconomic
Institute.
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Bruni, L. (2002), Felicità
e Scienza Economica. Storia, problemi aperti e spunti teorici,
Working Paper No. 48, Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università
di Milano "Bicocca".
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Bruni,
L. (2002), Hic
Sunt Leones. The Missing Link of Interpersonal Relationships
in the Tradition of Economics, Department of Economics,
University of Milano Bicocca.
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Clarck, A.E. (2003), Happiness,
Habits and High Rank: Human and Social Capital (or Drinking
Alone: Social Capital in Great Britain), Ecole normale
supérieure, Département et Laboratoire d'Economie
Théorique et Appliquée, mimeo.
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Clark, A.E., Diener, E., Georgellis, Y., Lucas, R.E.
(2003), Lags
and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis,
Paper presented at the Conference
on Well-Being and Social Capital, Weatherhead Center
for International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government
November 2003.
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Corneo, G., Jeanne, O. (1999), Social
Organization in an Endogenous Growth Model, International
Economic Review, vol.40, issue 3, pages 711-25.
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De Gier, E. (2003), The
Information Society And The Solidarity Contract Challenges
for Social Policy in the Age of Information and Globalisation,
Paper presented at the Conference
Sustainable Ties in the Information Society, Tilburg
University, March, 2003.
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Diener, E. (2003), Subjective
Well-Being. The Science of Happiness and a Proposal for a
National Index, Paper
presented at the Conference
on Well-Being and Social Capital, Weatherhead Center
for International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government
November 2003.
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Diener, E., Biswas-Diener, R. (2003), Will
Money Increase Subjective Well-Being? A Literature Review
and Guide to Needed Research, Paper
presented at the Conference
on Well-Being and Social Capital, Weatherhead Center
for International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government
November 2003.
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Donovan, N., Halpern, D. (2002), Life
Satisfaction: the State of Knowledge and Implications for
Government, Paper
presented at the Conference
on Well-Being and Social Capital, Weatherhead Center
for International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government
November 2003.
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Easterlin, R.A. (2000), Income and Happiness: Towards
a Unified Theory, The Economic Journal, 111:473 July 2000,
465-484.
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Frey,
B., Stutzer, A. (2001), Maximizing Happiness?, German Economic
Review Volume 1(Issue 2) (May 2000): S. 145-167.
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Graham, C., Pettinato, S. (2001), Frustrated
Achievers: Winners, Loosers, and Subjective Well Being in
New Market Economies, Center on Social and Economic Dynamics
Working Paper Series No. 21, The Brookings Institution.
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Gui, B. (2002), Più che scambi,
incontri. La teoria economica alle prese con i fenomeni interpersonali,
in Sacco, P.L. e Zamagni, S. (a cura di), Complessità
relazionale e comportamento economico. Materiali per un nuovo
paradigma di razionalità, Bologna, Il Mulino.
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Kim, D., Kawachi, I. (2003), Health
and Happiness in U.S. Communities: a Multivariate Multilevel
Analysis, Paper
presented at the Conference
on Well-Being and Social Capital, Weatherhead Center
for International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government
November 2003.
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Lane,
R.E. (2000), The
Loss of Happiness in the Market Democracies, New Haven,
Yale University Press.
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Omori, T. (2001), Balancing
Economic Growth with Well-Being. Implications of the Japanese
Experience, in
The
Contribution of Human and Social Capital to Sustained Economic
Growth and Well-Being, International Symposium
Report edited by the OECD and HRDC.
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Oswald, A.J. (1997), Happiness and Economic Performance,
Economic Journal, 107, 1815-31. Earlier version available
here.
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Rose,
R. (1999), What
Does Social Capital Add To Individual Welfare? An Empirical
Analysis of Russia, Social Capital Initiative Working
Paper No. 15, The World Bank.
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Rothstein, B. (1998), Just Institutions Matter:
The Moral and Political Logic of The Universal Welfare State,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
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Rothstein, B. (2001), Social
Capital in The Social Democratic Welfare State, Politics
& Society, Vol. 29 No. 2, June 2001 206-240.
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Tomer, J.F. (2003), Understanding Human Welfare,”
Indicators, 2(3), Summer 2003.
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Uhlaner, C.J. (1989), Relational Goods and Participation:
Incorporating Sociability into a Theory of Rational Action,
Public Choice, n.62, 253-285.
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