J. Barkley Rosser — The Overhyping Of _The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Bettere Later 50_

Jonathan Rauch of the Brookings Institution has but published The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50, which seems to last getting a major media force from a bunch of completely uncritical reviewers in addition to commenters, some of whom actually should know better. It is non that this majority is totally incorrect or bad, but that it manner overstates its case, ruddy picking information in addition to the views of people he has interviewed, amongst solely the slightest of caveats.

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Actually, if Aristotle is right inward Nichomachean Ethics, 1 should boot the bucket happier every bit 1 ages every bit along every bit 1 likewise gets wiser. For genuine happiness (Greek: εὐδαιμονία)  is a by-product of human excellence (Greek: ἀρετή), where excellence is defined inward damage of unfolding one's potential every bit a human beingness in addition to an individual. But evidently that is non what the majority is about.

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The Overhyping of _The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Bettere After 50_
J. Barkley Rosser | Professor of Economics in addition to Business Administration James Madison University