For near everything they tell us about whatmakesushappy is positively correlated with that economic growth they wish to dismiss as being correlated with happiness.
To researchers, the pursuit of happiness--the decision to buy a Jeep Cherokee over a Chevy station wagon, a Cape Cod house versus a ranch, to chain ourselves to our desks and grind ourselves into wafers--emanates from the most important question human beings can ask themselves: What really makesushappy?