Peer-reviewed journals
“Investigating environment-society-economy relations in time series in Europe using a synthetic input-state-output framework” (with Sporchia, F., Paneni, A., Pulselli, F. M., Caro, D., e Coscieme, L.), Environmental Science & Policy, 125, pp. 54-65, 2021
“Do People Care About Future Generations? Derived Preferences from Happiness Data” (with F. Sarracino), Ecological Economics, 143, pp. 253–275, 2018
“Money, Trust and Happiness in Transition Countries: Evidence from Time Series” (with M. Mikucka and F. Sarracino), Social Indicators Research, 130, pp. 87–106, 2017
“Twenty-five years of materialism: do the US and Europe diverge?” (with F. Sarracino), Social Indicators Research, 133(2), 787-817, 2017
“The dark side of Chinese growth: declining social capital and well-being in times of economic boom” (with F. Sarracino), World Development, 74: 333–351, 20
“Building sustainability through greater happiness”, The Economic and Labor Relations Review, Symposium on Development, Equity and the Environment, 25, pp. 587-602, 2014
“Happy for How Long? How Social Capital and GDP relate to Happiness over Time”, (with F. Sarracino), Ecological Economics, 108, pp. 242–256, 2014.
“The great recession and the bulimia of U.S. consumers: deep causes and possible ways out” (with L. Bonatti and F. Sarracino), Cambridge Journal of Economics, 38, pp. 1015–1042, 2014
“Predicting the trend of well-being in Germany: How much do comparisons, adaptation and sociability matter?” (with E. Bilancini and F. Sarracino), Social Indicators Research pp. 169-191, 114 (3), 2013
“Did the Decline in Social Connections Depress Americans’ Happiness?”, (with E. Bilancini and M. Pugno), Social Indicators Research, 110, (3) pp. 1033-1059, 2013
“If not only GDP, what else? Using relational goods to predict the trends of subjective well- being”, (with E. Bilancini), International Review of Economics, 57 (2), pp. 199–213, 2010
“Endogenous growth, decline in social capital and expansion of market activities”, (with L. Bonatti), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 67 (3), p.917-926, 2008
“The role of social capital in enhancing factor productivity: does its erosion depress per-capita GDP?” (with L. Bonatti), Journal of Socio-Economics, 37 (4), p.1539-1553, 2008
“The mobilization of human resources as an effect of the depletion of environmental and social assets”, (with L. Bonatti), Metroeconomica, 57, pp.193-213, 2006
“Negative externalities, defensive expenditures and labor supply in an evolutionary context” (with A. Antoci), Environment and Development Economics, 9, pp. 591-612, 2004
“Endogenous growth and negative externalities”, (with L. Bonatti), Journal of Economics, 79, pp. 123-144, 2003
“Undesirable growth in a model with capital accumulation and environmental assets”, (with L. Bonatti), Environment and Development Economics, 8, pp. 11-30, 2003
“Environmental and social degradation as the engine of economic growth”, (with L. Bonatti), Ecological Economics, 41, pp. 1-16, 2002
Under review
“Social capital reduces the impact of social comparisons on subjective well-being: Evidence from international datasets” (with M. Piekalkiewicz, F. Sarracino and G. Slater), revised version under review at Plos One
Book
“Manifesto for Happiness. Shifting society from money to well-being”, forthcoming in 2022, Palgrave-McMillan.
The book was published in Italy in 2013 (publisher Feltrinelli), in France in 2013 (publisher Les Liens qui Libèrent), in Albania in 2014 (publisher Botine Perpjekja) and in Japan in 2018 (publisher Commons Publishing Inc.). A part of the book was published in Spanish in the volume Politicas Y Bienestar Sujetivo (D. Gómez-Álvarez e V. Ortiz Ortega (eds.) 2016).
Article contributions to books
“Happier and Sustainable. Possibilities for a post-growth society” (with F. Sarracino), forthcoming in Zimmermann K. F. (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2022
“Unhappiness as an Engine of Economic Growth”, in Rojas, M. (ed.). The Economics of Happiness. Springer, pp. 271- 301, 2019
“Introduction”, (with E. Bilancini, L. Bruni and P. L. Porta), in S. Bartolini, E. Bilancini, L. Bruni and P. Porta (editors.), “Policies for Happiness”, Oxford Univ. Press, pp. 1-17, 2016
“Social Capital Predicts Happiness Over Time: World-Wide Evidence from Time Series”, (with E. Bilancini and F. Sarracino), in S. Bartolini, E. Bilancini, L. Bruni and P. Porta (editors.), “Policies for Happiness”, Oxford Univ. Press, pp. 175-198, 2016
“Buying alone: how the decreasing American happiness turned into the current economic crisis”, in Timo J. Hämäläinen and Juliet Michaelson (eds.), Well-Being and Beyond: Broadening the Public and Policy Discourse, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 144-181, 2014
“Are stressful jobs the price to pay for economic prosperity?”, (with F. Sarracino) in F. Sarracino, (ed.), The happiness compass: theories, actions and perspectives for well-being, chapter 9, Nova Science Publishers, 2013
“Social Assets, Technical Progress and Long-Run Welfare”, (with L. Bonatti), in L. Sacconi and G. Degli Antoni (eds.), “Social Capital, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic Behavior and Performance”, Palgrave Mc MIllan, pp. 305-328, 2010
“Why are People so Unhappy? Why do They Strive so Hard for Money? Competing Explanations of the Broken Promises of Economic Growth”, in L. Bruni and Porta P. L. (eds.), “Handbook of Happiness Economics”, Elgar, Cheltenham, 2007
“Beyond Accumulation and Technical Progress: Negative Externalities as an Engine of Economic Growth”, in Basili M., Franzini M., Vercelli S. (eds.), “Environment, Inequality and Collective Action”, Routledge, London and New York, 2006
Edited Books
“Policies for Happiness” (E. Bilancini, L. Bruni and P. Porta, co-editors.), Oxford Univ. Press, 2016
Encyclopedias
Authored the entry “Relational Goods”. In: Michalos AC (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 5428- 5429, 2014
Working papers
“Social capital as disease prevention”, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistica, University of Siena, n. 778, 2018
Updated February 2022