Special Issue: Happiness, Capabilities, and Opportunities

On November 18 2018, HEIRS (a network of economists working on Happiness Economics and Interpersonal relations) organized a conference in Naples, Italy. The aim of the conference was to refresh the debate on happiness, capabilities and opportunities by connecting scholars with different cultural backgrounds. There were some good reasons for this, related both to the way happiness research has been evolving in the last few years, and to the way the capability approach has been interpreted in the wider realm of the equality of opportunity. These issues were at the core of the discussions held during the two-day conference that had as keynote speakers Bruno S. Frey, Mozaffar Qizilbash and Robert Sugden, among others. In this editorial we briefly survey three contributions discussed at the Conference, published as articles in the current issue of the International Review of Economics.