This week's edition of Parade Magazine has an article byBarry Schwartz, author of the book "The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less." He is a professor of psychology at Swarthmore.
He says that as the number of choices we have grows (for products) we become less happy, that it is too hard to
Although I would gamble Schwartz has more ideological than empirical
reasons for his conclusions, is there trend data available over multiple
years? I don't think a point estimate is any way to gauge something like
happiness with respect to time. As for surveys, from what I know of the
I don't think a point estimate is any way to gauge
something like happiness with respect to time. As
for surveys, from what I know of the experimental
literature, economists seem to put very little
credence in surveys aside from gathering rather
concrete data (e.g. demographics, independently
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Bryan Caplan wrote:
The Political Business Cycle story has not fared well empirically in
recent years (though Kevin Grier has done interesting work on Mexico's
PBC). But it seems overwhelming in the Oscars. It seems like roughly
half of the big nominees get released in
But this wouldn't explain the clustering of *plausible prize-winners* (many of which
are not big grossers) around Xmas.
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From: William Dickens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Saturday, January 3, 2004 9:55 am
Subject: Re: Oscar Political Business Cycle
I thought the
