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Carl Phillips ’81 dramatizes the weeping of Patroclus’ horses at their owner’s death in the poem “Happiness??; “Immortal, / and yet earthbound, hovering around their disbelief, / around their instinct not to believe…” they weep without understanding, until the anguish recedes and they are returned to indifference. It is the analysis of sorrowful themes such as this, tinged with optimism, that characterizes his latest collection “Speak Low.”In his 10th book, a collection...
Last year, Sunstein co-authored the book “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness?? that proposed “choice-architecture,” or the structuring of situations so that individuals make better choices...
...classes in the Gen Ed curriculum now come from the current Core. On April 17, The General Education Standing Committee approved the additional courses—including Historical Studies A-13: “China, Tradition and Transformation”; Historical Studies B-40: “Pursuits of Happiness??; and Quantitative Reasoning 48: “Bits”—according to committee member Alexander “Zander” N. Li ’08. In February, the Committee also added Literature & Arts A-88: “Interracial Literature?...
...Economics professor David I. Laibson ’88 provided post-lecture commentary, describing the major impact of Kahneman and other psychologists on the field of economics. To prove his point, Laibson presented a 2006 issue of The Economist with a cover story on “Happiness?? and a 10-page report about the brain. “We’re losing on every dimension,” Laibson joked, referring to psychology’s gaining influence on economics. In a more serious tone, Laibson described Kahneman as unique even among other Nobel Laureates...
...come up with our own rules to live by. Some are more cynical and some are really romantic,” she said. “My co-writer was far more cynical and I was more romantic. He would say ‘abandon the pursuit of happiness?? and I would say ‘believe in fairy tales.’ But we like that because that’s what life is. Some days you’re going to say ‘promote beauty’ and some days you?...