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    MORE MONEY DOES BUY MORE HAPPINESS

    Aug 21, 2020 2 minutes
    RONALD BAILEY

    “DOES MONEY BUY happiness?” asked economist Richard Easterlin in a famous 1973 essay in . His conclusion was that once a certain level of economic development had been achieved, greater wealth and income did not lead to greater overall happiness. At

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