Jeffrey Sachs chases after the Easterlin Paradox and so claims that we should all be running the economy to increase happiness not just to increase the economy.
This was especially true of Eliogabalo himself, portrayed by the hardworking countertenor Christopher Ainslie and his two cross-dressing sidekicks, Zotico (mezzo-soprano Daryl Freedman) and Lenia (tenor John Easterlin).
In 2008, economists Justin Wolfers and Betsey Stevenson, both of the University of Pennsylvania, published a paper where they reassessed the Easterlin paradox using new time-series data.
Today Easterlin published a new paper concluding that in 37 countries across the world, rich and poor, well-being has not gone up in conjunction with income over the long term.