Happiness and economic success are not perfectly correlated ... - Gary Becker

"Happiness and economic success are not perfectly correlated due to adaptation and relative position effects."

Gary Becker Happiness

Economist Sociologist American 1930–2014

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"My greatest joy is making people smile."

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