There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.

There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.

People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.