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ETHICS NEWSLINE ® | 07.26.10 | by Rushworth M. Kidder

Public Integrity and National Happiness: An Indissoluble Link

Last week, as the House ethics committee stepped up its investigation of New York congressman Charles Rangel, I was reading Derek Bok's latest book, The Politics of Happiness. Bok's book examines the relatively new field of happiness research, which strives to measure public happiness. If there's any fault with this field of study, it's that the research so far has approached many factors -- marriage, relationships, employment, and the rest -- as though they were the causes of happiness. But what if they are effects of a larger cause?...

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