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#1 is Happy, #2…

Tuesday, March 18, 2003

Happiness is not like ice cream. When I eat a spoonful of ice cream from the quart in the fridge I’m taking that spoonful away from the rest of my family. Happiness isn’t like that, if I’m a bit more happy it doesn’t follow that the rest of my family is denied some happiness. Economists, [...]

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Stuff Addiction

Monday, March 17, 2003

Something that makes me happy is to observe the process by which science proves the patently obvious, and then beats it up with a large club until it gives up just a bit more information so you will leave it alone and go home. I gather that scientists have discovered that stuff make makes us [...]

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Happiness vs. the GDP

Monday, March 17, 2003

This series of three lectures by Richard Layard on what we know about human happiness and what that might imply from a personal, social, and govermental point of view are just packed with thought provoking ideas. For example we can now peek inside people’s heads and see which parts of their brains light up when [...]

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