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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Happiest of Them All?
Author(s) -
Torgler Benno,
Antić Nemanja,
Dulleck Uwe
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
kyklos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1467-6435
pISSN - 0023-5962
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6435.2008.00403.x
Subject(s) - happiness , magic (telescope) , psychology , aesthetics , social psychology , sociology , psychoanalysis , media studies , art , physics , astronomy
SUMMARY This paper turns Snow‐White's magic mirror onto recent economics Nobel Prize winners, top economists and happiness researchers, and through the eyes of the ‘man in the street’ seeks to determine who the happiest academic is. The study not only provides a clear answer to this question but also unveils who is the ladies' man and who is the sweetheart of the aged. It also explores the extent to which information matters and whether individuals' self‐reported happiness affects their perceptions about the happiness of these superstars in economics.