Happiness, adaptation and social comparisons Seminar
- Date:
- 24 February 2012
- Venue:
- Building 58 Room 1023
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Jane Revell at j.revell@southampton.ac.uk .
Event details
Applications & policy seminar
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation are actually found in a considerable variety of economic and social activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward.
Speaker information
Andrew Clark , Paris School of Economics. Research Interests: applied microeconomics