Teaching

Feb-Mar, 2024, minor course: 

"Growth, institutions and social interactions"  

University of Strasbourg


The syllabus of the course is available here.

The slideshow used for the first two classes is available here.

Readings:


1.     Fioramonti, L., Coscieme, L., Costanza, R., Kubiszewski, I., Trebeck, K., Wallis, S., ... & De Vogli, R. (2022). Wellbeing economy: An effective paradigm to mainstream post-growth policies?. Ecological Economics, 192, 107261.

 

2.     Michel, C., Sovinsky, M., Proto, E., & Oswald, A. J. (2019). Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction: Cross-national evidence on one million Europeans. The Economics of Happiness: How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed Our Understanding of Well-Being and Progress, 217-239

 

3.     Bartolini & Sarracino , 2021. “Happier and Sustainable. Possibilities for a post-growth society” MPRA No. 108309.

 

4.     Clark, A. (2016). SWB as a measure of individual well-being. The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy

 

5.     Sarracino, F. and Slater, G.(2023), Social capital and Subjective Well-Being in Roger Fernandez-Urbano and Hilke Brockmann,Encyclopedia on Happiness, Quality of Life and Subjective Well-being, Edward Elgar.


6.     Bartolini, S. (2019). Unhappiness as an engine of economic growth. The Economics of Happiness: How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed Our Understanding of Well-Being and Progress, 271-301.

 

7.     Hirata, J. (2019). Keynes’ Grandchildren and Easterlin’s Paradox: What Is Keeping Us from Reducing Our Working Hours?. The Economics of Happiness: How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed Our Understanding of Well-Being and Progress, 303-317.

 

8.     Sarracino, F. (2019). When does economic growth improve well-being?. The Economics of Happiness: How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed Our Understanding of Well-Being and Progress, 355-370.

 

9.     Sarracino, F., & O’Connor, K. J. (2021). Economic growth and well-being beyond the Easterlin paradox. A Modern Guide to the Economics of Happiness, 162-188.


10.     Binder, M. (2019). Homo Economicus and Happiness: Towards More Sustainable Development. The Economics of Happiness: How the Easterlin Paradox Transformed Our Understanding of Well-Being and Progress, 171-191.

 

11.     Haberl, H., Wiedenhofer, D., Virág, D., Kalt, G., Plank, B., Brockway, P., ... & Creutzig, F. (2020). A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights. Environmental research letters, 15(6), 065003.

 

12.     Macchia, L. (2022). Pain trends and pain growth disparities, 2009–2021. Economics & Human Biology, 47, 101200.

 

13.     Aknin, L. B., Whillans, A. V., Norton, M. I., & Dunn, E. W. (2019). Happiness and prosocial behavior: An evaluation of the evidence. World happiness report, 2019, 67-86.


14.     Sarracino, F., & O’Connor, K. J. (2023). Neo-humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 18(1), 9-41.

 

15.     Zawadzki, S. J., Steg, L., & Bouman, T. (2020). Meta-analytic evidence for a robust and positive association between individuals’ pro-environmental behaviors and their subjective wellbeing. Environmental Research Letters, 15(12), 123007.

 

16.     Helliwell, J. F., Aknin, L. B., Shiplett, H., Huang, H., & Wang, S. (2017). Social capital and prosocial behaviour as sources of well-being. 

 

17.     Peroni, C., Pettinger, M., & Sarracino, F. (2022). Productivity Gains from Worker Well-Being in Europe. International Productivity Monitor, (43), 41-61.

 

18.   Peroni, C. and Sarracino, F.(2023), Productivity and Subjective Well-Being in Roger Fernandez-Urbano and Hilke Brockmann,Encyclopedia on Happiness, Quality of Life and Subjective Well-being, Edward Elgar.