{"id":129,"date":"2004-02-23T23:54:25","date_gmt":"2004-02-24T06:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smallchangenews.org\/wordpress\/?p=129"},"modified":"2004-02-23T23:54:25","modified_gmt":"2004-02-24T06:54:25","slug":"at-what-cost-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/02\/23\/at-what-cost-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"At What Cost, Happiness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--107760206521521652--><\/p>\n<p>Penny Scott <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconnect.org\/BALLEBC\/viewPage.cfm?pageId=745\">blogs<\/a> Richard Tarnoff&#8217;s recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straight.com\/content.cfm?id=926\">article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;only within the past century have economists decided that the purpose of human activity is no longer the pursuit of happiness but the pursuit of wealth. Eighteenth- and 19th-century economists, including Britain&#8217;s Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus, considered happiness to be the goal of all economic activity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I want to rest on this thought and come back in a bit with a slice of Austrian economist F. A. Hayek.  But first, a quiet moment to consider the economics of happiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penny Scott blogs Richard Tarnoff&#8217;s recent article: &#8230;only within the past century have economists decided that the purpose of human activity is no longer the pursuit of happiness but the pursuit of wealth. Eighteenth- and 19th-century economists, including Britain&#8217;s Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus, considered happiness to be the goal of all economic activity. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/02\/23\/at-what-cost-happiness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;At What Cost, Happiness?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","tag-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}