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We use a new approach to study questions in political economy that relies on data on the subjective well-being of more than a quarter of a million people living in the OECD over the period 1975-92.

We argue that this is one aspect that the good design of policies on the extraction of oil and mineral resources should take into account.

This paper develops a model to show how social insurance affects revolt against property rights and the consequences for the optimal design of the welfare state.

We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.