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 | | From: | maff | | Subject: | Happiness | | Date: | Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:40:42 +0000 (UTC) |
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 | Can't buy it?
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3555887
Jan 13th 2005
>From The Economist print edition
FOR the past half-century, those lucky enough to have been born in a
rich country have had every prospect of growing richer. On average,
incomes in Britain, America and Japan, adjusted for inflation, have
easily doubled over that time. On top of this come the benefits of
longer lives of better quality, thanks to advances in medicine and to a
plethora of consumer goodies making living easier and more enjoyable.
You might, even, expect folk to be a great deal happier today than in
the 1950s.
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
By Richard Layard
The Penguin Press; 272 pages; $25.95.
Happiness
http://news.google.com/news?tab=gn&q=Happiness&safe=images&lr=&num=100&hl=en&
http://www.google.com/search?tab=nw&q=Happiness&lr=&num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=Happiness&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?as_q=Happiness&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Layard (Richard OR Lord)
http://news.google.com/news?tab=gn&q=Layard%20(Richard%20OR%20Lord)&safe=images&lr=&num=100&hl=en&
http://www.google.com/search?tab=nw&q=Layard+(Richard+OR+Lord)&lr=&num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=Layard+(Richard+OR+Lord)&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search&cat=gwd/Top
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?as_q=Layard&as_oq=Richard%20Lord&safe=images&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
A Blueprint for the Future
http://snipurl.com/a684
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| | From: | TCS | | Subject: | Re: Happiness | | Date: | Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:51:25 +0000 (UTC) |
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| On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:40:42 +0000 (UTC), maff wrote:
>Can't buy it?
>http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3555887
>Jan 13th 2005
>>From The Economist print edition
>FOR the past half-century, those lucky enough to have been born in a
>rich country have had every prospect of growing richer. On average,
>incomes in Britain, America and Japan, adjusted for inflation, have
>easily doubled over that time. On top of this come the benefits of
That trend ended twenty years ago.
Right now incomes have only been rising if you're in the top 5%.
Otherwise, incomes in U.S. have dropped.
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| | From: | Robert Grumbine | | Subject: | Re: Happiness | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 02:53:44 -0000 |
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| In article ,
TCS wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:40:42 +0000 (UTC), maff wrote:
>>Can't buy it?
>>http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3555887
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>>Jan 13th 2005
>>>From The Economist print edition
>
>>FOR the past half-century, those lucky enough to have been born in a
>>rich country have had every prospect of growing richer. On average,
>>incomes in Britain, America and Japan, adjusted for inflation, have
>>easily doubled over that time. On top of this come the benefits of
>
>That trend ended twenty years ago.
>
>Right now incomes have only been rising if you're in the top 5%.
>Otherwise, incomes in U.S. have dropped.
Source please? I inspected the figures myself last year, for
the (then, and up to ca. 2002) previous 36 years, and could not
find a drop beginning in the 1980's running through to present.
I did see some other interesting things, and didn't have figures
for some things I thought relevant. But that statement of yours,
no, couldn't support it.
--
Robert Grumbine http://www.radix.net/~bobg/ Science faqs and amateur activities notes and links.
Sagredo (Galileo Galilei) "You present these recondite matters with too much
evidence and ease; this great facility makes them less appreciated than they
would be had they been presented in a more abstruse manner." Two New Sciences
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| | From: | TCS | | Subject: | Re: Happiness | | Date: | Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:13:24 -0600 |
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| On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 02:53:44 -0000, Robert Grumbine wrote:
>In article ,
>TCS wrote:
>>On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:40:42 +0000 (UTC), maff wrote:
>>>Can't buy it?
>>>http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3555887
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>>>Jan 13th 2005
>>>>From The Economist print edition
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>>>FOR the past half-century, those lucky enough to have been born in a
>>>rich country have had every prospect of growing richer. On average,
>>>incomes in Britain, America and Japan, adjusted for inflation, have
>>>easily doubled over that time. On top of this come the benefits of
>>
>>That trend ended twenty years ago.
>>
>>Right now incomes have only been rising if you're in the top 5%.
>>Otherwise, incomes in U.S. have dropped.
> Source please? I inspected the figures myself last year, for
>the (then, and up to ca. 2002) previous 36 years, and could not
Only took me about 30 seconds to find this.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2000pubs/p60-204.pdf
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| | From: | Mad Mambo Master of Macedonia | | Subject: | Re: Happiness | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 03:25:11 GMT |
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| TCS wrote in
news:slrncv0sqk.fef.The-Central-Scrutinizer@linux.client.comcast.net:
> Only took me about 30 seconds to find this.
> http://www.census.gov/prod/2000pubs/p60-204.pdf
I recall reading more than once that "real wealth" peaked in America around
1965.
--
"Prepare my war elephant!"
--Legend of Suroyathai
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| | From: | TCS | | Subject: | Re: Happiness | | Date: | Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:44:04 -0600 |
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| On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 03:25:11 GMT, Mad Mambo Master of Macedonia wrote:
>TCS wrote in
>news:slrncv0sqk.fef.The-Central-Scrutinizer@linux.client.comcast.net:
>> Only took me about 30 seconds to find this.
>> http://www.census.gov/prod/2000pubs/p60-204.pdf
>I recall reading more than once that "real wealth" peaked in America around
>1965.
I reread it and I was wrong. The shift to the top 5% ended around '93.
Hm... 81-93... could that have anything to do with the reagon/bushsr years?
Wait a few years for the census to catch up and it'll probably show the
top 5% getting richer again.
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