Southerners Being Separated from Their Money

Time, Money, and Subjective Well-Being

Time and money are scarce and precious resources: people experience stress about having insufficient time, and worry about having insufficient money. This chapter reviews research showing that the ways in which people spend their time and money, the tradeoffs that people make between having more time or having more money, and the extent to which people focus on each resource can have a signific...

Beyond Money: Toward an Economy of Well-Being.

Policy decisions at the organizational, corporate, and governmental levels should be more heavily influenced by issues related to well-being-people's evaluations and feelings about their lives. Domestic policy currently focuses heavily on economic outcomes, although economic indicators omit, and even mislead about, much of what society values. We show that economic indicators have many shortcom...

Redesigning Money to Serve Economies of Well-being and Happiness

I believe the greatest threat to the pursuit of genuine happiness and well-being is our current debt-money system. In the face of an international debt-crisis, it is remarkable that there is no serious discussion about the nature of money, or about how and who creates our money. While meaningful conversations about alternative measures of progress (e.g. Gross National Happiness, Genuine Progres...

Money Walks: Implicit Mobility Behavior and Financial Well-Being

Traditional financial decision systems (e.g. credit) had to rely on explicit individual traits like age, gender, job type, and marital status, while being oblivious to spatio-temporal mobility or the habits of the individual involved. Emerging trends in geo-aware and mobile payment systems, and the resulting "big data," present an opportunity to study human consumption patterns across space and...

From wealth to well-being? Money matters, but less than people think