Does Growth Cause Happiness, or Does Happiness Cause Growth?
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The two quotes above suggest alternate ideas about the sources of happiness. The first (written around AD 180) is nn Aristotelian notion. Happiness is a way of living, not a state. The second quote (written some 1500 years later) suggests ideas about the sources of happiness perhaps more akin to the way that we tend to view [hem today. Happiness is about conviviality, warmth. food (and perhaps some ale). Neither view: however. emphasizes the importance of wealth beyond the dreams of Croesus or Bill Gates. Further. that happiness and pleasure have been a subject of discussion since at least the earliest western philosophy cuggests high levels of national income are not necessary for happiness. Nonetheless. i c is posited in ~nuch of the literature on economic grow~h [hat ever greater income lends to ever greater utility. If an economy expands, the goods produced in the now larger economy will satisfy conditions on a' higher
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