Subject: [Keuangan] Kepuasan hidup : Seks atau
Uang....?
Dalam paper ilmiah berjudul "Money, Sex and Happiness:
An Empirical Study" yang diterbitkan oleh National Bureau of Economic
Research -- para peneliti mendapatkan bahwa ada cara lain dalam mencapai
kepuasan hidup yang bisa mengkompensasikan uang - yaitu
seks.
Berikut artikel yang saya kutip dari harian Wall Street Journal 8
Juni 2004 :
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Pleasure Principle: Study Says
More Sex Akin to Higher Pay
Economists Gauge the Link Between Following
the Id And Boosting Happiness
By JON E. HILSENRATH Staff Reporter of
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL June 7, 2004; Page C3
Economists have
labored for centuries to find ways to reduce unemployment, inequality and
inflation, in a noble quest to improve human well-being. Now, economic
researchers have determined a more down-to-earth prescription for the
welfare of humankind: more sex.
In a paper submitted to the National
Bureau of Economic Research, a private group in Cambridge, Mass.,
economists David Blanchflower of Dartmouth College and Andrew Oswald of
Warwick University in England try to gauge how sex measures up against
other factors in determining a person's satisfaction in life.
Mr.
Blanchflower admits that his findings may appear to be common knowledge,
but he says "we are trying to scale it and measure its degree of
importance."
Mr. Blanchflower calculates that going from having sex
once a month to having it at least weekly is roughly equivalent to the
amount of happiness that an extra $50,000 of income would bring to the
average American. "The effect of sex on happiness is statistically
well-determined ... and large," the authors conclude. "This is true for
males and females, and for those under and over the age of 40."
The
paper is titled, "Money, Sex and Happiness: An Empirical Study." It is
based on data from the National Opinion Research Center's General Social
Surveys.
This kind of research has a tradition in economics, going
back to the 19th century work of philosophers John Stuart Mill and Jeremy
Bentham on pleasure, happiness and utility.
One recent paper by
several economists, including 2002 Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman,
found in a survey of 909 women in Texas that sex rated as the activity in
day-to-day life that produced the single largest amount of
happiness.
Among their other findings, Messrs. Blanchflower and
Oswald found that higher-income individuals do not have sex any more
often, or have any more partners, than lower-income individuals; that
people who have paid for sex are considerably less happy than others; and
that the happiness-optimizing number of sexual partners per year is
one.
Write to Jon E. Hilsenrath at
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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