Consumption and Happiness Links

Consumption= and Happiness Links

This page = provides links to web pages on the relationship between consumption and happiness (broadly defined). The links = are mostly to newspapers, magazines, or blogs, not to scholarly papers.

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I am not e= ndorsing any of the views expressed in these links.=

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Many of th= e links have been provided by students, colleagues and friends. I am grateful to them for the link= s.

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I would be grateful if you could bring appropriate links to my attention. Please email: ad= utt@nd.edu. Please let me know if any of the l= inks become inactive and I will remove them.&nb= sp;

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Consuming = these links doesn’t cost money but don’t forget that it takes time! Be happy!

General

Data

World Values Survey

http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org= /

Consump= tion

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Global issues website on consumption and consumerism:

= http://www.globalissues.org/issue/235/consumption-and-consumerism<= /o:p>

Creating the consumer:

http= ://www.globalissues.org/article/236/creating-the-consumer

The story of stuff

= http://www.youtube.co= m/watch?v=3DgLBE5QAYXp8

Happine= ss

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New Science of Happiness

h= ttp://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1015902,00.html

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Empiric= al Issues

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Money and Happiness –= ; James Speth

http://e= nvironment.yale.edu/pubs/Money-Cant-Buy-You-Love/

Money and Happiness

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/business/16leonhardt.html?_r=3D1

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The world is getting happier, with Denmark on top, Zimbabwe at the bottom:

http= ://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25460793/

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Happiness across US States

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/the-happiest-states= -of-america/

Happiness and the Working Class: US States

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/happiness-and-the-= working-class/

Link provided by David Betson

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US states: Well-being index:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/= 03/11/business/economy/0311-SUBeconomix-well-being-map.gif

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Richard Florida on what makes US states happier:

http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/2009/03/13/what-m= akes-happy-states/

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Helen Johns and Paul Ormerod question the implications of empirical findings of happiness research:

http://= www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue46/JohnsOrmerod46.pdf

Dan Turton disagrees:

http://www.pa= econ.net/PAEReview/issue49/Turton49.pdf

Helen Johns and Paul Ormerod respond:

http://www.pae= con.net/PAEReview/issue49/Johns49.pdf

How to = be Happier

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We are happier with experiential vs. material consumpt= ion.

http://www.spring.org.uk/2009/02/how-to-choose-between-experienti= al-and.php

Link provided by Laura Marie Lazar

Topics

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Adverti= sing and marketing

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Advertising and consumer c= ulture – Jhally

http://www.s= utjhally.com/articles/advertisingattheed/

= George Will’s criticism of Galbraith

= http://www.sea= ttlepi.com/opinion/268903_will04.html

Age

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Young and Old Americans: W= ho are happier?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/c= ontent/article/2008/07/13/AR2008071301641.html?hpid=3Dsec-health

Choice<= o:p>

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Barry Schwartz on the Para= dox of Choice on U-Tube

http://www.youtube.co= m/watch?v=3DVO6XEQIsCoM

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Communi= ty and morals

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Bowling Alone: Interview w= ith Robert Putnam

http://= xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/assoc/bowling.html

Civic engagement in America= – Putnam

= http://www.hks.harvar= d.edu/saguaro/staff.htm

Consump= tion and Consumerism

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Conspicuous and inconspicu= ous consumption:

http://www.theat= lantic.com/doc/200807/consumption

Debt, f= inance and bankruptcy

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Credit card debt and bankruptcy

http://www.money-zine.com/Financial-Planning/Debt-Consolida= tion/Credit-Card-Debt/

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US Senate hearings on Credit Card debt (March 24, 2009= )

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/artic= les/djf500/200903241234DOWJONESDJONLINE000464_FORTUNE5.htm

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Develop= ment

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Opulence and HDI do not always go together, as in India. "Slumdogs vs. Millionaires" http://www.zmag.org/zne= t/viewArticle/20949

Link provided by Sean Mallin

Environ= ment and Energy

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Happiness and the environment – Happy Planet Ind= ex

http://ww= w.happyplanetindex.org/

The environment and happiness

http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008= /07/22/why-your-happiness-matters-to-the-planet/

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World= watch Institute on an enduring energy futre

http://www.worldwatch.org/files/pdf= /SOW09_chap4.pdf?emc=3Del&m=3D218549&l=3D5&v=3D244cb5bdbd

= Jared Diamond on the consumption factor in NYT

= http://ww= w.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/opinion/02diamond.html

Friends=

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Strangers and happiness

h= ttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/health/05happy-web.html?_r=3D1

Governm= ent policy

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Robert Frank on the consumption tax:

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/10/robert= -frank-we.html

American Ent= erprise Institute on the consumption tax

http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.29082/pub_detail.asp

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Health<= o:p>

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Consumption and Health in India:

http:/= /www.worldwatch.org/node/5398

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Inequal= ity

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Richard Epstein on inequality, happiness and envy

http= ://www.econtalk.org/archives/2008/11/richard_epstein.html

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Needs a= nd the standard of living

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Consumption and wellbeing

http://w= ww.eoearth.org/article/Consumption_and_well-being

Easterbrook on the American standard of living: the pr= ogress paradox

http:= //www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/03/easterbrook_on.html

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Output, recession and Growth

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Patrio= tic consumption?

http://www.the= crimson.com/article.aspx?ref=3D161020

= http://= pearsonblog.campaignserver.co.uk/?tag=3Dconsumption

= http://www.newsweek.com/i= d/189232/page/2

= http://steadfastfin= ances.com/blog/2009/03/17/newsweek-suggests-its-your-patriotic-duty-to-stop= -saving-and-start-spending/

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Politic= s

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Democrats and Republicans:= Who are happier?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/= 2008/10/23/AR2008102303473_pf.html

Psychol= ogical factors

Kahneman on the aspirations treadmill:

http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_17.html#kahneman

Shopping and the Brain:

http://www.n= ytimes.com/2007/01/16/science/16tier.html

Saver’s remorse

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/scienc= e/24tier.html?scp=3D2&sq=3Dsavers%20remorse&st=3Dcse

Link provided by Laura Lazar

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Public = goods and government spending

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Jess Jack= son on Private wealth, public squalor

http://www.caglepost.com/column/Jesse+Jackson/6821/= Private+Wealth+And+Public+Squalor.html

NPR’s All Things Considered, after J K Galbraith’s death (not just about public squalor, but about Galbraith’s impact):

htt= p://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3D5372493

Recessi= on affects consumption

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Shopping by bartering in recessions:

http://www.washingtonpost.com= /wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/13/AR2009031303035.html?wprss=3Drss_print/a= section

Link provided by Sean Mallin

Conspicuous consumption reduced during recession

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/us/10reset.html?ref=3Dtodayspaper

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Religio= n

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Religion and a happy life<= o:p>

http://news.bbc.co.u= k/1/hi/health/7302609.stm

Psychology of religion hom= epage

http://www.psychwww.com= /psyrelig/happy.htm

Status<= o:p>

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Status competition and hap= piness

http://www.finfacts.com/cgi-bin/irelandbusinessne= ws/exec/view.cgi?archive=3D2&num=3D375

Time an= d Work

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Take back your time

http://www.timeday.org/

Inequality and the shortag= e of leisure

= http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=3DJSfVxqCjbgdmJV= cQbNBSRlQy1h1XqxwvvZyzs9DhtLdGWNB6btrn!1530467563!2004912927?docId=3D500182= 2839

= The age of overwork

= http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/03/01/white_col= lar_sweatshop/index.html

Karoshi – Death from overwork in Japan

= http://www.apmforum.com= /columns/boye51.htm

= Happiness at Work Index

= http://www.arboraglobal.com/documents/Happiness%20at%20Work%20= Index%202007.pdf

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Unemplo= yment

When men lose their jobs:

http://w= ww.newsweek.com/id/185854

Link provided by Daniel Krcmaric<= /span>

Survivor’s guilt after layoffs

h= ttp://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1874592,00.html

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Specific = kinds of consumption

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Automob= iles

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Cars and the environment: = rise in production of cars but few are green

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5461?emc=3Del&m= =3D218549&l=3D4&v=3D244cb5bdbd

Nano hypocrisy: debate about the Indian Nano<= /span> car

= http://www.worldwatch.org/node= /5579

Gifts

Expensive chocolates and gift-giving

htt= p://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/10/business/10money.html?_r=3D1

Househo= ld Goods

= Material World – household goods around the world

= http://w= ww.catalog.socialstudies.com/pdf/ZP219Psample.pdf

= http://www= .pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/material.html

Stuff <= /span>

Stuff and art – the work of Chris Jordan

http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php

Link provided by Erin Murphy

Specific consumers

Childre= n

Commodification of childre= n: marketing to children

http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21094

Link provided by Sean Mallin