Should Government Maximise Happiness?

Lecture by Professor Bruno Frey, Warwick Business School

Professor Frey was recently appointed Distinguished Professor of Behavioural Science at WBS and is based in the Behavioural Science Group. He retains the post of Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where he has specialized in political economy, non-market economics, and the theory of economic policy since 1977. Before that he was Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Basel. He is also Research Director of CREMA (Centre for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts, Zurich).

He has studied in continental Europe, the UK and the USA, and holds four Honorary Doctorates. He is author of over 600 articles in professional journals in economics and also in political science, sociology and psychology. He holds numerous professional memberships and is on many editorial boards and committees. Since 2009 he has been on the publisher Thomson's ISI Web of Knowledge Most Highly Cited Researchers list.

Professor Frey's main research interests are in the application of economics in non-economic fields, for example the economic theory of politics and international political economy, the environment, family, conflict, history and art; and theory of economic policy. More recently, he is researching the connection between economics and psychology.