Academic Resources
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Films and Videos and Streams
Quotations with sources in The Pursuit of Happiness?
Supplemental Readings
Web Sites
Authors’ sites
Reviews and Commentary: My Inheritance
Reviews and Commentary: What Growth Is, What Growth Does
Reviews and Commentary: Reversal of Fortune
Reviews and Commentary: The Stool Makers of Jobra Village
Reviews and Commentary: The Rocking-Horse Winner
Reviews and Commentary:
My Inheritance, an essay by Meera Nair
from the book, Money Changes Everything, New York:Doubleday, 2007.
Out of India: a profile of Meera Nair, by Michelle Reale, The Writer, February 2003, vol.116#2.
Video, collection of short stories by Meera Nair, book review by Norbert Schurer, World Literature Today, October-December 2003, vol.77#3/4.
Reviews and Commentary:
What Growth Is, What Growth Does, a book chapter by Benjamin
Friedman from Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, New York:
Knopf, 2005.
The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, book review by
Fred Pryor, Comparative Economic Studies, June 2007.
The Virtue of Riches, book review by Megan McArdle,
Reason, July 2006.
Reviews and Commentary:
Reversal of Fortune, an article by Bill McKibben from Mother Jones,
March/April 2007, vol.32#2.
Here are two reviews of new books by Bill McKibben:
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, book review by Bill Valentine, Contract, July 2007, vol.49#7.
The Bill McKibben Reader, book review by Donna Seaman, Booklist, February, 15, 2008, vol.104#12,
Reviews and Commentary:
The Stool Makers of Jobra Village, a book chapter by Muhammad
Yunus from Banker to the Poor, New York: Public Affairs, 1999.
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty,
book review by Tim Buthe, Journal of International Affairs, Spring 2000, vol.53#2.
Banker to the Poor, book review by Paul Streeten, Finance and Development, March 2000, vol.37#1.
Reviews and Commentary:
The Rocking-Horse Winner, a short story by D.H. Lawrence, first
published in Harper's Bazaar, July, 1926.
Bloom's Major Short Story Writers: D.H. Lawrence, 2001.
Presents one interpretation. Is the moral obvious?
Find much more commentary and criticism in the Library Database, the
Literary Reference Center. Use the title, Rocking-Horse Winner, as
a search term.
Web sites:
National Opinion Research Center (NORC) - National Data Program for the Social Sciences
This program has been conducted since 1972 at the University of Chicago with the support of the National Science Foundation. The stated goals are to conduct basic research on the structure and development of American society, and to distribute up-to-date important and high quality data to social scientists, students, policy makers and others.
The data collected from one question in the survey is referred to in the McKibben reading:
Question 157: Taken all together, how would you say things are these days - would you say that you are very happy, pretty happy, or not too happy?
To see the data and related reports go to the GSS Index > scroll down and select 'H' > Happiness > General Happiness
Survey of International Happiness, Leicester University, England
Article about the survey showing that Denmark is the happiest country reported by Morley Safer on 60 Minutes. See the Keys to Happiness news stream on the Videos page.
Here is the Happy Planet Index Map referred to in this article. This index measures ecological efficiency along with well-being.
Authors' Sites:
Meera Nair, publisher's page
Benjamin Friedman
Bill McKibben
Muhammad Yunus
D.H. Lawrence, University of Nottingham
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