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26. The Health of Nations

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The Relationship Between Wealth and Happiness

Happiness is a question of what you think happiness is. Jeremy Bentham said we should look at happiness in terms of pleasure or satisfaction. John Stuart Mill insisted that we had to think about happiness as containing many different kinds of experiences and activity. I think the Benthamite approach where we just think of happiness as a single feeling has got very little going for it.

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