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Abstract
This comment takes issue with the opposition that Andreou draws between the “exalted” and the “worldly” view. It argues instead for a distinction between “miswanting” and “competitive consumption” as rival explanations for the failure of economic growth to increase average levels of subjectively reported happiness in developed nations. It ends with a caution against over-reliance upon happiness research as an argument for environmentally-motivated constraints on growth.
Notes
1. The key authors in this tradition are Packard (Citation1957), Galbraith (Citation1958) and, more recently, Lasn (Citation2000).
2. The key authors here are Hirsch (Citation1976); Veblen (Citation1973).
3. See Veblen, Citation1973, p. 78. See also Heath, Citation2008.
4. Pope John Paul II (Citation1991). See also Kassner (Citation2002).
5. As I have argued, in Heath and Potter (Citation2001).
6. An observation first made by Frank (Citation1997).