April, 2007

Good News About Depression and Suicide

by Will Wilkinson
The Conversation
April 23rd, 2007

In this post, Barry claims: Even if well-being is trending up in the U.S., so too is clinical depression (including suicide). I’m not sure that this is true in the case of depression, and I’m pretty sure it isn’t for suicide. Estimates of the incidence of depression may be vastly overinflated due to a number [...]

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Justice and Happiness and Growth, not Justice or Happiness or Growth

by Barry Schwartz
The Conversation
April 23rd, 2007

I think Darrin has it exactly right that too much security seems to produce a sclerotic economy, at least in these times, and several Scandinavian countries, seeing the handwriting on the wall, have traded a bit of security for economic flexibility in recent years. Some day a really smart economist may figure out a way [...]

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