Things of interest in New York magazine’s cover story (by Jennifer Senior) on “the burgeoning field of happiness studies”* the phrase “the hedonic treadmill” (coined by Philip Brickman, a happiness researcher, who, in a hideous irony, later threw himself off the top of the tallest building in Ann Arbor)which Senior defines as “the unending hunger for the next acquisition” but which made me think
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