Check out this great article from Forbes.com - Happiness can indeed be bought. But there’s no storefront, no web site, no vendors or purchase orders required. And the wealth isn’t wired —but it is transferred. If you want happiness for an hour—take a nap. If you want happiness for...
In the many, many interviews I've done over the last decade or so about happiness one of the most common questions I'm asked is along the lines of...
Money and wealth or happiness and health? Do you really need to choose? Are they dichotomous or mutually exclusive constructs? We have, and so too have many others, written and talked much about these questions over the years and they are, admittedly, very important questions. So in...
In today's SMH and the Age there's an interesting article about the link between happiness and money; and I'm quoted in it! Here's the bit in which I'm involved...
Getting richer does not make a country happier in the long run, according to the largest-ever review of the links between a nation's wealth and the wellbeing of its citizens. The researchers looked at life satisfaction data from 37 countries collected over various time periods, from...
Money might not buy happiness (directly) but it may well help in certain ways when it comes to living a good life...
by Carl Richards for the NY Times You may have heard about the recent study out of Princeton University, in which Daniel Kahneman, a winner of the Nobel in economic science, and co-author Angus Deaton found that people reported an increase in happiness as their incomes...
A Gallup poll done for the Charitable Aid Foundation finds more correlation between happiness and giving than between wealth and giving. The survey's ranking of countries puts America as number five. Many poor nations are high in giving of one type or another. by Clayton...
Can you really put a dollar value on happiness? I'm not so sure! But this research, the launch of which I was involved in last week, tries to do just that and there's no doubt it makes for some interesting reading...
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely made a big splash with his first book, Predictably Irrational. He_ã_s now released a new book called The Upside of Irrationality. Jill Schlesinger talks with the behavioral economist about big Wall Street bonuses, the best ways to buy happiness, and the...
