TY  - BOOK
AU  - Francesco Sarracino
AB  - In the long run economic growth does not improve people's well-being. Traditional theories – adaptation and social comparisons – explain this evidence, but they don't explain what shapes the trend of subjective well-being and its differences across countries. Recent research identified in social capital a plausible candidate to explain the trends of well-being. This dissertation adopts various econometric techniques to explore the relationship over time among social capital, economic growth and subjective well-being. The main conclusion is that social capital is a good predictor of the trend of subjective well-being, both within and across countries. Hence, policies for well-being should aim at preserving and enhancing social capital for the quality of the social environment matters.
DO  - 10.36253/978-88-6655-277-2
ID  - OAPEN ID: 49885
L1  - https://www.fupress.com/redir.ashx?RetUrl=5534.pdf
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/59514
PB  - Firenze University Press
PY  - 2012
SN  - 9788866552772
TI  - Social capital, economic growth and well-beingnull
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