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Volume 10 Number 3 • Winter2005/06
Who Says Money Cant Buy Happiness?
This article appeared in the Winter2005/06 issue of The Independent Review.
Some new arguments for higher taxes and government spending rest on the claim, supposedly established by empirical studies and by Adam Smith, that money doesnt buy happiness. In reality, however, more wealth does increase human happiness, if only temporarily.
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Dwight R. Lee is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Affiliated Visiting Faculty Fellow in the Institute for the Study of Political Economy in the Miller College of Business at Ball State University.
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