Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain, Mathias Dolls, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, and Sebastian Siegloch (IZA): Happy Taxpayers? Income Taxation and Well-Being. Maurice E. Stucke (Tennessee): Should Competition Policy Promote Happiness? Mark Walker’s Happy-People-Pills for All looks at what it means to be happy and how advanced pharmacological agents might mimic natural wellbeing. The human talent for unhappiness: Jane Shilling reviews The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz. Tauriq Moosa on when happiness is immoral. Emily Esfahani Smith on how there's more to life than being happy: It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness. Give away your money, feel happier? Money changes everything: According to new research, money actually does buy happiness — with one notable exception (and more).
