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What Kind of Happiness Do People Value Most?

Harvard Business Review

Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman described this distinction as “being happy in your life” versus “being happy about your life.” But what kind of happiness do people want? Is it happiness experienced moment-to-moment? Or is it being able to look back and remember a time as happy?

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The End of Economists' Imperialism

Harvard Business Review

The field attracts the most students, enjoys the attention of policy-makers and journalists, and gains notice, both positive and negative, from other scientists.". "By almost any market test, economics is the premier social science," Stanford University economist Edward Lazear wrote just over a decade ago.

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