Does Happiness Have To Cost The Earth?
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 10:56
in Psychology & Sociology
I just watched Nic Marks of the New Economics Foundation's recent TED talk, which I hope I can embed below. Marks and I both appear have a problem with the amount of media attention that the financial industry gets. For me, I don't like the contradiction where science writing has to be dumbed down because "people don't get science," but the finance section of a newspaper is filled with so much jargon that few people have a clue what it means. He has a slightly different problem - why is it there at all? read more