The Microeconomics of Wellbeing and Sustainability
Recasting the Economic Process

Emphasizes the importance of partnerships and widespread participation in creating a sustainable economy built on new theories of consumption

Leonardo Becchetti (Author), Luigino Bruni (Author), Stefano Zamagni (Author)

9780128160275, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 22 October 2019

480 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 3 cm, 0.7 kg

The Microeconomics of Wellbeing and Sustainability: Recasting the Economic Process explores the civil economy tradition in economic thought. Gaining increasing consensus worldwide, this alternative—not heterodox—view of the economic process and agents explains how modern economics is placing increasing emphasis on the determinants of subjective wellbeing and environmental sustainability. With support from behavioral economics, this book makes a foundational contribution that will help users better understand and prepare for future economic challenges.

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

Subject Areas: Management decision making [KJMD], Microeconomics [KCC], Economics [KC]