“The concern of this paper has been with the association of income and happiness. […] Within countries there is a noticeable positive association between income and happiness-in every single survey, those in the highest status group were happier, on the average, than those in the lowest status group. […] in the one national time series […]
While we often say “money can’t buy happiness”, we sure act as if it does. We take improving material prosperity as a key goal, not just in our own lives, but also for our societies. But how much do we really know about the relationship between money and happiness? When does money make us happier, […]
With research by us at the , Bloom Wellbeing Fund has recently released a new report providing an up to date overview of the problem of mental illness, and the best ways to solve it. Here are our top takeaways from the report, which are an edited version of the summary shown in […]
[This is the second of two articles on the relationship between happiness and money. The last covered whether money can buy happiness – we said ‘yes, with minor caveats’. This considers how to buy more happiness for your money.] Part of our frustration with the “can money buy happiness?” debate is that it obviously matters […]
People say ‘money can’t buy happiness’. Other people offer the reply that “the people who say ‘money can’t buy happiness’ just don’t know where to shop”. Our response is that money definitely can buy happiness. We think that’s so obvious it’s a boring question to ask. A better question is “how much happiness can money […]
This may sound like a faux-intellectual investigation of something that’s obvious. But when I tell people I’m a happiness researcher, sometimes people get this glint in their eyes, probably thinking they’re the first person to ask me: “What does ‘happiness’ even mean?”. I think this is an important, if unoriginal, question. Because one of the […]