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Or Paradox Regained? The answer is Paradox Regained. New data confirm that for countries worldwide long-term trends in happiness and real GDP per capita are not significantly positively related. The principal reason that Paradox critics reach a different conclusion, aside from problems of data...
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A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...
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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 for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point...
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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 for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012372750
A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012505150
impression that economic growth, social capital, and / or quality of the environment are driving happiness trends, but in the …'s happiness be increased? On this, there is a conflict between a number of policy alternatives - promote economic growth, increase …
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This study investigates the income-happiness puzzle in China by examining the trends in happiness and economic growth …
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The ratio of Indian to US per capita output over the past 45 years has displayed a distinctive "V"-shaped pattern. We show that a strikingly similar V-shaped pattern is visible not just in aggregate output .figures, but also as the primary determinant of long-term movements in the...
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those that are relatively close to the major global financial centers. This points to both political and economic conditions …
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Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic … countries studied here a greater increase in happiness does not accompany more rapid economic growth. These conclusions hold … of the trend in well-being. -- Happiness ; economic growth ; developing countries …
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