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What Works Well (blog): Will that Lamborghini make me happy?
7 August 2019
To help John and the journalist, we asked our World Wellbeing Panel to comment on the wellbeing arising from luxury goods. With aspirations of one day owning that Lamborghini, we expected our panel of economists to agree overwhelmingly that consuming status goods like luxury cars makes us happy. Well, we got that one wrong: of our panel of happiness experts, 31% disagreed or, like our good journalist, didn't have an opinion one way or the other.