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Unhappiness and Pain in Modern America: A Review Essay, and Further Evidence, on Carol Graham's Happiness for All? / David G. Blanchflower, Andrew Oswald.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blanchflower, David G.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w24087.
- NBER working paper series no. w24087
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Unhappiness and Pain in Modern America
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.
- Summary:
- In Happiness for All?, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today's United States. The challenge she puts forward is an important one. Here we review the intellectual case and offer additional evidence. We conclude broadly on the author's side. Strikingly, Americans appear to be in greater pain than citizens of other countries, and most sub-groups of citizens have downwardly trended happiness levels. There is, however, one bright side to an otherwise dark story. The happiness of black Americans has risen strongly since the 1970s. It is now almost equal to that of white Americans.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- November 2017.
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