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Happiness Economics, Eudaimonia and Positive Psychology: From Happiness Economics to Flourishing Economics
(Springer, 2015-08)
A remarkable current development, happiness economics focuses on the relevance of people’s happiness in economic analyses. As this theory has been criticised for relying on an incomplete notion of happiness, this paper ...
Two Conceptions of Economics and Maximization
(Oxford University Press, 2013-02)
Economics has evolved from a ‘domain-focused’ conception, i.e. the study of specific kinds of human activities, to a ‘scarcity-based’ conception, i.e. the study of a particular approach to all human choices. It thus enlarged ...
Capitalismo periférico: crisis y transformación
(Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2017)
Long-term association of economic inequality and mortality in adult Costa Ricans
(2012-01)
Despite the large number of studies, mostly in developed economies, there is limited consensus on the
health effects of inequality. Recently a related literature has examined the relationship between relative
deprivation ...
Economic design of (X)over-bar and R charts under Weibull shock models
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2000-03-01)
This paper considers the problem of a continuous production process where both the mean and variance are simultaneously monitored by an (X) over bar chart and R chart respectively, and generalizes the model of Costa (IIE ...
Economic crises, behavioral changes and hospitalization due to affective disorders in Brazil between 2003 and 2017: A nationwide cross-sectional study
(2020-03-01)
Our aim was to analyze hospitalization due to affective disorders in Brazil from 2003 to 2017 and the pos-sible association with economic indicators during crises. We used data on hospitalizations due to affective disorders ...