-being ; happiness ; satiation ; basic needs ; Easterlin paradox …-log and does not diminish as incomes rise. If there is a satiation point, we are yet to reach it. -- subjective well …

-log and does not diminish as incomes rise. If there is a satiation point, we are yet to reach it …

for a satiation point above which income and well-being are no longer related. -- subjective well-being ; life …

for a satiation point above which income and well-being are no longer related …

for a satiation point above which income and well-being are no longer related …

happiness and real GDP per capita are not significantly positively related. The principal reason that Paradox critics reach a … happiness. For some countries their estimated growth rates of happiness and GDP are not trend rates, but those observed in … cyclical expansion or contraction. Mixing these short-term with long-term growth rates shifts a happiness-GDP regression from a …

of others undercuts the tendency for happiness to grow with an increase in one's own income, and happiness remains fairly …, and the greater the shortfall, the less one's happiness. There is thus an asymmetry in the psychological roots of income … evaluations when income is rising vs. falling , and this causes a corresponding asymmetry in the response of happiness to the …

The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within … nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason … vitiates the otherwise positive effect of own-income growth on happiness. Critics of the Paradox mistakenly present the …