23 Feb Happiness around the world is…equality
Check out this interesting article from Positive Psychology News Daily about worldwide happiness…
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, two English epidemiologists, have written a provocative book on how high levels of inequality in societies are harmful for everyone within them.
Their research shows that while economic policies in developed countries stress the importance of economic growth, the contribution of further economic growth reaches a point of dimiminishing marginal returns (especially when happines levels are being taken into account). The relationship levels off between economic growth and certain objectively measurable outcomes, as shown for life expectancy in the figure below…
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