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Les Echos (France):
L'argent ne fait-il vraiment pas le bonheur?/Money does not really make happiness ?

23 November 2017

In 2005, another Richard, the delicious British baron Layard, explained that "when a country has more than $ 15,000 per capita, its level of happiness seems independent of its per capita income. What is the point of claiming a higher salary if it is only to consume or save more without becoming happier?

Related publications

Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, Richard Layard, Penguin Books, 2005 ISBN 0 1410 1690

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1080/14733140600986227/abstract

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