Economix: Life Is Better; It Isn&#8217;t Better. Which Is It?
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Recently there has been a roiling debate about how to describe living standards in this country.
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This book attempts to demolish the notion that ''new is better.&quot; For the most part, it succeeds. Sergio Zyman and coauthor Armin A. Brott build a solid foundation for their argument that innovation can be disastrous for the bottom line. Innovation is like a sugar high, they say -- a quick fix that just doesn't work.
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Life hardens us and art desensitizes us. Is the culture of violence turning us into creatures without empathy? Commentary by Tony Long.
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Comment is free: Madeleine Bunting: Never have so many of us appeared so well-off yet felt so poor - and we used to believe obscene wealth was victimless.
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Being happy in a job is more important to women than having a good salary or their marital status, according to an assessment of well-being by a Nobel Prize winner, Prof Daniel Kahneman.
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Measuring the well-being of a nation isn&#39;t as simple as figuring out a country&#39;s gross domestic product. But a team of economists and psychologists has developed a new method
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New research says that live-in boyfriends are more likely than husbands to help with house cleaning. And guess who reports better sex lives?
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Sex, happiness, time, culture, exchange and mind. Money in all its guises.
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Why own luxury in a world defined by increasing economy?
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Comment is free: George Monbiot: The middle classes congratulate themselves on going green, then carry on buying and flying as much as before.
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Comment is free: John Kelly: The prospect of living in Britain is financially daunting. My plan is to put the family in diapers.
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How&#39;s your health? Feeling well? Expecting to live to a ripe old age? If the answers are yes, then economically speaking, you&#39;re not helping.
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As experts gather for the 2nd International Conference on Happiness &amp; Its Causes,  TIME looks at proven ways to find more joy in life
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The Motley Fool - Ask an average American whether it's better to own or rent your home, and you'll likely hear that owning is better. You get to build equity in an asset that's likely to appreciate in value over the long haul, and you can enjoy mortgage interest tax deductions as well. Some savvy sorts will point out, though, that renting is sometimes better -- such as when you're not going to stay in the same place too long, or if you're saving (and investing) money by renting and are earning good returns.
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The United States is facing the possibility of a severe economic correction. Yet most of the causes of such a correction are, for the most part, being completely ignored in preference to partisan bickering. It is the proverbial elephant in the living room - except it is not just one, but several elephants that everyone is doing their best to ignore. While the likelihood that any of these issues could result in disaster is low, these are issues worth taking the time to discuss.
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You're probably better off -- and worse off -- than you thought.
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By Victor Keegan  LONDON: It is curious how the globalization of people is happening much faster than the globalization of goods.