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Capitale sociale e benessere sociale

Negli ultimi anni, una parte sempre più rilevante della letteratura economica ha adottato una nozione ampia di benessere, corrispondente a quello che nella terminologia anglosassone viene chiamato well-being, in contrapposizione al tradizionale concetto di welfare. Nella ricerca del benessere, un ruolo fondamentale va attribuito alla soddisfazione dei bisogni relazionali, soprattutto nelle economie avanzate, dove la soddisfazione dei bisogni materiali ha ormai raggiunto livelli straordinari.
Questa sezione della reading list è dedicata al ruolo delle relazioni sociali (e del capitale sociale) nel miglioramento della qualità della vita e nella determinazione del comportamento individuale.
Le sottosezioni (Capitale sociale, servizi pubblici e Stato sociale, e Capitale sociale e salute) prendono invece in considerazione altri fattori in grado di influenzare il benessere delle persone, quali l'esistenza e l'efficienza dei meccanismi di protezione sociale - pubblici o informali - contro la malattia e la vecchiaia. La sezione è in costruzione: sono graditi commenti e segnalazioni.

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Letture fondamentali

• 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.

• Bruni, L. (2004), A History of Happiness in Economics, London and New York, Routledge.

• Bruni, L., Pelligra, V. (2002), Economia come impegno civile. Relazionalità, benessere ed economia di comunione, Roma, Città Nuova.

• Bruni, L., Zamagni, S. (2004), Economia Civile. Efficienza, equità, felicità pubblica, Bologna, Il Mulino.

• Easterlin, R.A. (2003), Building a Better Theory of Well-Being, IZA Discussion Paper Series, n.742.

• Easterlin, R.A. (2003), Explaining Happiness, Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

• Frey, B., Stutzer, A. (2003), What Can Economists Learn from Happiness Research?, Forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Literature.

• 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.

• Grootaert (2002) Social Capital, household welfare and poverty in Indonesia, Policy Research Working Paper no. 2148, Washington D.C., The World Bank.

• Gui, B. (2000), Beyond Transactions: On the Interpersonal Dimension of Economic Reality, in Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 71, 2, 139-169.

• 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.

• Heliwell, J. (2001), Social Capital, The Economy and Well-Being, The Review of Economic Performance and Progress, 01-3, 43-60.

• 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.

• Hollis, M. (1998), Trust Within Reason, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

• Inglehart, R. (1999), Trust, Well-being and Democracy, in Warren, M.E. Democracy and Trust, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. pp. 88-120.

• Rothstein, B., Stolle, D. (2003), "Social Capital, Impartiality and the Welfare State: An Institutional Approach", in Hooghe, M., Stolle, D. (eds), Generating Social Capital: Civil Society and Institutions in Comparative Perspective, New York, Palgrave.

• Sudgen, R. (2000), Team Preferences, Economics and Philosophy, n. 16, pp.175-204.

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Approfondimenti

• 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.

• Alesina, A., Di Tella, R., MacCulloch, R. (2002), Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?, NBER Working Paper No. w8198.

• 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.

• 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.

• Bjørnskov, C. (2003), The Happy Few: Cross-Country Evidence on Social Capital and Life Satisfaction, Kyklos (2003), vol. 56 (1), pp. 3-16.

• Blanchflower, D.G., Oswald, A.J. (2000), Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA, NBER Working Paper No. w7487.

• Blanchflower, D.G., Oswald, A.J. (2003), Money, Sex and Happiness: An Empirical Study, NBER Working Paper No. w10499.

• Boes, S., Winkelmann, R. (2004), Income and Happiness: New Results from Generalized Tresholds and Sequential Models, University of Zurich, Socioeconomic Institute.

• 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".

• Bruni, L. (2002), Hic Sunt Leones. The Missing Link of Interpersonal Relationships in the Tradition of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Milano Bicocca.

• 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.

• 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.

• Corneo, G., Jeanne, O. (1999), Social Organization in an Endogenous Growth Model, International Economic Review, vol.40, issue 3, pages 711-25.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Easterlin, R.A. (2000), Income and Happiness: Towards a Unified Theory, The Economic Journal, 111:473 July 2000, 465-484.

• Frey, B., Stutzer, A. (2001), Maximizing Happiness?, German Economic Review Volume 1(Issue 2) (May 2000): S. 145-167.

• 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.

• 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.

• Lane, R.E. (2000), The Loss of Happiness in the Market Democracies, New Haven, Yale University Press.

• 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.

• Rothstein, B. (1998), Just Institutions Matter: The Moral and Political Logic of The Universal Welfare State, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

• Rothstein, B. (2001), Social Capital in The Social Democratic Welfare State, Politics & Society, Vol. 29 No. 2, June 2001 206-240.

• 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.

• Oswald, A.J. (1997), Happiness and Economic Performance, Economic Journal, 107, 1815-31. Earlier version available here.

• Tomer, J.F. (2003), Understanding Human Welfare,” Indicators, 2(3), Summer 2003.

• Uhlaner, C.J. (1989), Relational Goods and Participation: Incorporating Sociability into a Theory of Rational Action, Public Choice, n.62, 253-285.

• Zamagni, S. (2002), L’economia delle relazioni umane: verso il superamento dell’individualismo assiologico, 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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