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In These Times Online: Why You Shouldn?t Listen to Self-Serving Optimists Like Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker
27 March 2019
Most strikingly, Rosling must have worked hard to ignore the data on mental health, given that the global leading cause of ill health today is depression. According to new estimates by Sarah Fleche and Richard Layard of the London School of Economics, mental disorders explain even more misery than poverty and physical ill health, as reflected in life satisfaction surveys.