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TV - the (Un)Happiness-Effect
In the previous post, we were discussing the money and time-consuming aspect of having a TV.

Now let's look on what happiness economics has to say on watching TV:
Source of the following is the book "Glück - die Sicht der Ökonomie" from the swiss professor Bruno Frey, who was one of the first to start scientific research on the measurement and causes of happiness.(English version here). Highly recommended reading for those who speak German.On his website there are a pile of publications to download in English as well, however mostly very scientific papers and more complicated to read. I happend to hear an excellent lecture of Prof.Frey at the Ludwig-Maximilans-University of Munich in 2001 or so - another great leap on my journey to more good days to live.

First of all, average TV consumption is massive throughout the world:

3h 30min for the average German.

Even more, 4h 50min, for the average US citizen.

That's a hell of a lot of time!



Let's make some comparisons:
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mrwoodpecker am 31. May 12  |  Permalink  |  0 Kommentare  |  comment