Happiness Paradox: seems contrary yet is true!

Washington Post, June 23, 2008 page A2: Economist Richard A. Easterlin at the University of Southern California noticed the paradoxical disconnect between a nation's ecoomic growth and growth of its happiness. I lectured in Shanghai about Happiness is not material consumption over desire only but intellectual pursuit, spiritual satisfaction plus good health must be added to the numerator over the Desire as the denominator for the Equation of Happiness as I sent my previous blogs to the same effect. I am so glad to compare notes with a fellow economics educator today as published. Such may be the common ground for folks in USA and in China as well. Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao,a lifelong student of economic philosophy as Adam Smith was a professor of moral philosophy,the author of "Wealth of Nations." June 23, 2008 at 7.08 a.m.