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« Too Good for the Comments: Ebeling on Mises the Applied Economist | Main | The Great Caplan-Boettke Debate »

Not dismal, but cheerful

|Peter Boettke|

New study from Germany shows that economic students are happier than those studying other social sciences.

Posted by on March 12, 2010 at 08:15 AM |

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And all this time I thought ignorance was bliss.

Posted by: Jasper | March 12, 2010 at 09:03 AM

False consciousness.

Posted by: Art Carden | March 12, 2010 at 09:12 AM

I believe it.

I got my acceptance letter from George Mason yesterday. This fall I'll be the guy with the big smile plastered on his face.

Posted by: Michael Foley | March 12, 2010 at 09:15 AM

Plus, Austrian economists generally live to ripe old ages. I think we're happy and live long because we know we're right. ;)

Posted by: Steve Horwitz | March 12, 2010 at 09:24 AM

Economics, the Gay Science.

Posted by: FC | March 12, 2010 at 03:00 PM

But "students who identified themselves as political conservatives reported lower levels of satisfaction, on average".

Posted by: Rafe Champion | March 12, 2010 at 03:59 PM

Bertrand Russell was one of the most formidable and effective controversalists of the 20th century but he said the one person who he was terrified to debate was Maynard Keynes.

Posted by: topills.com review | December 19, 2010 at 08:31 AM

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