Now economists do sociology and psychology too? I´ll wait for friedman to write the horrorscopes.
Don´t let the turkeys get you down! Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
Poor bloody economists, scorned for a narrow vision of what life is all about, when some try looking at such important things as happiness - they get jeered at for stepping outside their academic niche. It only says they "led" it, and it seems to have involved collating lots of surveys done by others, so not really outside their competence, and evidently the academic journal judged that it was worth publishing:
The results, published in the journal Social Science & Medicine, showed that people's levels of happiness followed a U-shaped curve, a pattern that was remarkably consistent in the vast majority of countries the researchers looked at, from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe. ... Andrew Oswald, from the University of Warwick, and David Blanchflower, from Dartmouth College in the US, led a study of more than 2 million people from 80 countries to find if happiness was related to age.
The results, published in the journal Social Science & Medicine, showed that people's levels of happiness followed a U-shaped curve, a pattern that was remarkably consistent in the vast majority of countries the researchers looked at, from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe.
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Andrew Oswald, from the University of Warwick, and David Blanchflower, from Dartmouth College in the US, led a study of more than 2 million people from 80 countries to find if happiness was related to age.
