An interesting Wall Street Journal article reports some basic commonsense about how money doesn’t equate to happiness: Yes, if you live in poverty, more money can bolster your happiness. “But once you’re safe and warm and fed, it makes surprisingly little difference,” says David Schkade, professor of management at the University of California at San [...]
I think this is a great piece on how not being smart with your own money supply can cause untold pain and suffering not only to the people that you’ve just seignoraged into poverty, but to yourself — when said people revolt and break away and turn you over to NATO forces. I’ve also underlined, [...]
suffice to say, I consider this to be very interesting and somewhat close to the truth. Conquering Cancer with Private Medicineby Michael D. Tanner Few things in life are as terrifying as a diagnosis of cancer. But for millions in the United States, the news just got a little bit better. Death rates for those [...]
I finished reading Freakonomics by Stephen Levitt on my return flight from the Barkley Forum at Emory this past weekend, and it definitely revived some of the economics-envy that I often feel when I see those ec kids studying interesting stuff. For the longest time, I wasn’t sure what to make of the book. The [...]