There's a whole literature on measuring happiness using polling data (indicating that up to a point, increases in GDP-defined income raises happiness, but then it levels off, among other things). But people are too complicated for such exercises. The only system that reduces everything to a single dimension is capitalism (or commodity production in general).
Eugene Coyle wrote: > I don't think he talks about the "production" of happiness, but in his new > book, Happiness, Richard Layard asserts that happiness is a scalar and can > be measured. Or something like measured. Quite an interesting book. -- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine
