Quote by Nic Marks

“When people can afford necessities in life, an increase in income dones not result in a significantly happier life.”

— Richard Wiseman

“Like how there’s this optimal money/happiness equation. Once you pass a certain amount of household income, life isn’t any better. Apparently, money can’t buy…

— Catherine McKenzie

The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but…

— Tim Jackson

“It is actually a rather sorry tale. In the late nineteenth century most English economists thought that economics was about happiness. They thought of…

— Richard Layard

“If the satisfaction to be derived from each successive increase in wealth is smaller than the satisfaction derived from the previous increase in wealth,…

— Peter L. Bernstein

“Indeed, the instability of families’ incomes has risen faster than the inequality of families’ incomes.”

— Jonathan Morduch

“It seems madness to think that a society would rate marginal economic growth above a livable earth, but there you are. I had always…

— Bill Bryson

You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome.

— Timothy Noah

“Many of us believe that if we only had more money, we would be happier. Yet--excluding those who live below the poverty line and…

— Ted Cascio

“When we combine the idea of prosperity with an intention for our highest good and the highest good of all life, we create true…

— Amy Leigh Mercree

Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters.…

— Emily Oster

“Much of modern life is based upon a false logic, a logic that assumes that happiness and well-being come from financial prosperity.”

— Nic Marks