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Happyism in Today’s Society

Diedre McCloskey, professor of economics, English and history, wrote a column for The New Republic regarding the evolution of society's obession with the concept of "happiness." She argues that, in the long view of society, happiness as a goal is relatively new, and that it is not something which can be simply measured on a numeric scale.