Economic growth and the human lot.

In 1974, Richard A. Easterlin, a coauthor of the work by Easterlin et al. (1) in PNAS, published a seminal article (2) that has generated a huge literature. It sought to explain why the happiness score in the United States (and elsewhere) had stayed roughly constant, whereas income per capita had tr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Knight, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2012