What money can’t buy
How education and friends enrich
MONEY'S not everything, but can it buy you happiness? Governments of the rich countries that belong to the OECD in Paris worry about the links between economic growth and well-being. People may be richer, but does economic progress damage the ties that hold societies together? And are those ties essential to the acquisition of skills and attitudes that help an economy to flourish?
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “What money can’t buy”
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