Veenhoven, Ruut; Vergunst, Floris - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The 'Easterlin Paradox' holds that economic growth in nations does not buy greater happiness for the average citizen. This thesis was advanced in the 1970s on the basis of the then available data on happiness in nations. Later data have disproved most of the empirical claims behind the thesis,...