On 6 February 2014 09:16, Charles Haynes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not handy, but for some reason Jared Diamond comes to mind, and maybe Bill > Bryson. This list > http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/History_of_agriculture_book_list/mentions > both. > > -- Charles This thread made me think (the original point about about our ability to keep people alive but not necessarily happy) why we tend to go all bat-shit when the question of how much money you need before you will chuck everything and pursue whatever makes your boat rock arises. When you're twentyseven, all you want is a one bhk without a loan and the world is your oyster. But when that comes, you realize that you just can't do without three bedrooms. And so on. . Money is one of the biggest sources of unhappiness, as far as I can see, if not the single biggest one. Even i-bankers with eight figure salaries are depressed that it's not a nine figure salary. I've just started reading Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational. It's terrific and seems to be getting around to addressing that question. Even if it isn't, it seems to be insightful and full of examples of how we are very irrational indeed when it comes to economics -- Narendra Shenoy http://narendrashenoy.blogspot.com
