Required Reading, Listening and Watching

Note: Many of these assignments have a date after them. This is the target date by which you should have read that assignment.

Books:

1. Happiness: Lessons from a New Science by Richard Layard

2. GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History by Diane Coyle

3. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson (Beware: This book is so successful there are many companion books. You need the original book by Jordan B. Peterson. The title here links to the right Amazon page.)

Videos:

1. Ori Heffetz: Israel Climbs High in UN's 'World Happiness Report’ 1/14

2. Jordan Peterson, “The Phenomenology of the Divine” Q&A beginning at mark 2:19:00. 1/19

Podcasts:

1. Miles Kimball on the Potential of a National Well-Being Index 1/14

Blog Posts

1. Economics Is Unemotional—And That's Why It Could Help Bridge America's Partisan Divide (Pay special attention to the outtake on “Politicism” at the bottom.) 1/12

2. My Highlights from Joseph Biden's First Inaugural Address 1/12

3. Us and Them 1/12

4. Janet Adamy and Paul Overberg on Immobility in America 1/12

5. Measuring the Essence of the Good Life—Dan Benjamin, Kristen Cooper, Ori Heffetz and Miles Kimball 1/14

6. Does Ben Bernanke Want to Replace GDP with a Happiness Index? 1/14

7. Ori Heffetz: Quantifying Happiness 1/17

8. Judging the Nations: Wealth and Happiness Are Not Enough 1/17

9. National Well-Being Indexes and Goodhart’s Law 1/17

10. Tropozoics 1/17

11. Justin Wolfers: More Women Than Men Are Going to College. That May Change the Economy 1/24