Resources

Studies on Happiness

2011 Study that suggests Money can buy autonomy but not Happiness http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2011/06/buy-happiness.aspx

See Daniel Gilbert’s essay online at http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/gilbert03/gilbert_index.html For further evidence that money does not buy you happiness:

Would You Be Happier If You Were Richer? A Focusing Illusion. D. Kahneman, A. B. Krueger, D. Schkade, N. Schwarz, and A. A. Stone 2006.

R. H. Frank, 2004. “How Not to Buy Happiness.” Daedalus 1332: 69-79.

Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness, Canada, Knopf 2006.

Seligman 2002 and Haidt, J, The happiness hypothesis: Finding modern truth in ancient wisdom. New York: Basic Books 2006.