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Why Can’t We Stop Working?

Harvard Business Review

Harvard happiness researcher Daniel Gilbert has shown that children don’t increase parents’ short-term happiness ; in fact, on a day-to-day basis, parents prefer almost anything (from watching television to exercising) to spending time with their kids. The arc of family life is different.

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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

What wasn’t really up in the air was whether the new head of the world’s most powerful central bank would have a doctorate in economics. Gilbert did, can end up as president of the Dallas Fed (although who knows, maybe Tumblr founder David Karp has a shot). History has not judged his tenure well.