The decline of relational goods in the production of well-being?
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conventional; relational and status goods; time opportunity costs; production of wellbeing; life satisfaction;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
- D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
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