What things do we take for granted? Will new riches make us happier?

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Things mentioned in this podcast

Great Expectations by Dickens: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1400/1400-h/1400-h.htm

Brickman and Campbell (1971) on the hedonic treadmill: http://faculty.som.yale.edu/ShaneFrederick/HedonicTreadmill.pdf

Kahneman and Tversky (1981) on framing effects: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/211/4481/453

Fujita and Deiner (2005) on life satisfaction set-points: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cd07/b0fe2babecfdf3821e9db8fc3e654fd341c6.pdf