Shopping and Happiness

Carol Graham, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development

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November 27, 2007 —

It's supposed to be the "most wonderful time of the year." But for many Americans, the obligatory shopping that we do around the holidays results in more stress and less contentment. Carol Graham considers how shopping affects our happiness levels and whether ratcheting down our consumption will make us more or less content as a society.