Books written by Bruno S. Frey

Glück: Die Sicht der Ökonomie

Im Jahre 2007 betrug das schweizerische Bruttosozialprodukt zirka 528 Milliarden Franken oder rund 69 500 Franken pro Einwohner. Was sagen diese Beträge über das Wohlbefinden der in der Schweiz wohnhaften Bevölkerung aus – oder eben ...
21st Century Economics: Economic Ideas You Should Read and Remember

This compilation of short essays helps readers interested in economics to identify 21st century economic ideas that should be read and remembered.
Successful Management by Motivation: Balancing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Incentives

With the help of in-depth case studies, representative surveys, and analysis based on a large number of firms and employees, this work identifies the various aspects of motivation in companies and shows how the right combination of ...
Successful Management by Motivation: Balancing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Incentives

In this chapter we show that the structure of organizations has been closely associated with motivational issues since the beginnings of organizational research . Frederick Taylor , architect of the assembly line , was interested in the ...
Economics of Happiness

Happy-People-Pills for All.International Journal of Wellbeing1 (1): 127–148. This article also discusses various aspects of the supply of happiness pills. See also: Katolik, Aleksandra, and Andrew J. Oswald. 2017.
Honours Versus Money: The Economics of Awards

Honours versus Money discusses award bestowals in their different forms and facets, including as signals and as components of organisations' human resource strategies.
Overcoming Overtourism: Creating Revived Originals

In this book, Bruno S. Frey - a renowned and frequently cited economist - suggests, on the contrary, an extension of the supply of cultural sites in the form of “Revived Originals”.
Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-disciplinary Field

The integration of economics and psychology has created a vibrant and fruitfulemerging field of study. The essays in Economics and Psychology take a broad view of the interfacebetween these two...
Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-disciplinary Field

" As documented in this volume, the influence of psychology on economics has been responsible for a view of human behavior that calls into question the assumption of complete rationality (and raises the possibility of altruistic acts), the ...
Economic Ideas You Should Forget

Reporting on cutting-edge advances in economics, this book presents a selection of commentaries that reveal the weaknesses of several core economics concepts.
Happiness and Economics: How the Economy and Institutions Affect Human Well-Being

Happiness, they might say, is an ''unscientific'' concept. This is the first book to establish empirically the link between happiness and economics--and between happiness and democracy.
Economics of Art and Culture

This book studies the relationship between the arts and the economy.
Happiness: A Revolution in Economics

In Happiness, emphasizing empirical evidence rather than theoretical conjectures, Bruno Frey substantiates these three revolutionary claims for happiness research.
Recent Developments in the Economics of Happiness

This title presents 19 articles, dating from 2002 to 2012, on the subject of the economics of happiness.
Happiness and Economics: How the Economy and Institutions Affect Human Well-Being

This text establishes the link between happiness and economics and happiness and democracy. The guide demonstrates how micro- and macro-economic systems in the form of income, unemployment, and inflation affect happiness.
Inspiring Economics: Human Motivation in Political Economy

I highly recommend this book to all economists.
Political Business Cycles

This book surveys the empirical and major theoretical approaches, such as vote maximization, partisan and vote-cum-partisan models, and rational political business cycles.
The Political Process and Economic Change

... politics. “In order to ascertain whether the incumbents have performed poorly or well, citizens need only calculate the changes in their own welfare” (Fiorina, 1981, p. 5). This pocketbook logic can be traced back at least to Hobbes. In ...
Dealing with Terrorism: Stick Or Carrot?

Emphasizing a positive approach to dealing with terrorism (the carrot), this book provides a critique of deterrence policy (the stick) which can be ineffective and even counterproductive, and proposes three alternative and effective anti ...
Economics of Art and Culture

This book studies the relationship between the arts and the economy.