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Derek Bok The Politics Of Happiness

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In The Politics of Happiness, Derek Bok: the former president of Harvard University; discusses recent findings that researchers studying well-being have reported. He mentions; for example, research showing that measurements of happiness in the United States have not risen much in the last fifty years. People are responding to survey questions about their levels of happiness in much the same way as they did in 1960. The average incomes have grown, yet levels of happiness have not. Bok believes that people become accustomed to higher standards of living. They do not realize how quickly they adapt, and so they do not become happier. Bok recognizes that not everyone’s income has increased, but notes that, yet strangely enough; the disparity between
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