Leading thinkers discuss/disclose when they have been forced to change their mind on their theories, including this piece by Kahneman on "the sad tale of the aspiration treadmill".
Kahneman mentions the Gallup World Poll which was posted on here before. Gallup don't do things by halves polling well over a 100,000 people and representatingof 95% of the worlds population they showed a correlation of over .4 between GDP and life-satisfaction. Hard figures to argue against though it doesn't completely discount the Easterlin paradox of diminishing returns to GDP increases.
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