Here are some more useful papers on this issue. One thing they have in
common is the authorship of Bruno S. Frey (who was cited in an Economist
article on this subject as well) :
His Homepage:
http://www.iew.unizh.ch/home/frey/
(click on the link to Public Choice and Non-Market Economics -- and
R. Hanson wrote:
Another ref I found is: http://wvs.isr.umich.edu/papers/genes.htm
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Regarding the Inglehart and Klingmann study, Genes, Culture, Democracy, and
Happiness:
Despite their [Inglehard/Klingmann] findings that happiness levels vary
cross-culturally and that beliefs an
Another ref I found is: http://wvs.isr.umich.edu/papers/genes.htm
It does a regression of nation happiness and finds "Number of years
under communist rule" and "% workforce in industrial sector" both
clearly hurt happiness. Marginally significant are "GDP/capita",
"Historically Protestant", and "
> What makes people happy?
> Should the goal of economic policy be the reduction of unhappiness?
Nobody can make you happy other than yourself, but other people can make
you unhappy, mainly by interfering in what you would prefer to do.
So the goal of economic policy should be to maximize ind
Two thoughts on this. First, there is a lot of interest in this topic these days. I've
been at two conferences in the last 6 months and attended two seminars here at
Brookings on this issue. The National Institute on Ageing is considering funding (may
already have done it) a major project to de
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (who may or may not have a regular name) wrote:
>Andrew Oswald ... April 1997 ... "Happiness and Economic Performance".
>... offers a much-needed reminder that economic growth is only a means
>to an end. Economic things (more GDP, a lower CPI, etc) only matter
>in so far as they
Ed Dodson responding...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I wonder, does this mean that the primary goal of policy-makers should be full
>employment, forsaking all others? Should the goal of economic policy be the
>reduction of unhappiness? Should the members of the Federal Open Market Committee of
