Institutes of economics of well-being: theory and methodology

Theoretical and methodological bases of economics of well-being are considered in the article, approaches of the Russian and foreign scientists to a problem of formation of institutes within the limits of the normative economic theory (the theory of economics of well-being) are analyzed. Authors show, that in modern Russian conditions representative institutes of well-being and leadership, social responsibility, trust and prospect are of great value for the development of national economics.