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經濟學告訴你：關于幸福的11件事(雙語)

來源：考試吧發布時間：2012-10-19

　　Money can buy happiness, but up to what point? And does working more make us miserable? And will you be happier if you start your own company? Here's what the research tells us...

　　金錢可以買到幸福，但能買到多少幸福呢?另外，工作越多會讓我們痛苦嗎?如果經營自己的公司會更幸福嗎?以下是研究告訴我們的結果：

　　1) Generally speaking, richer countries are happier countries.But since many of these rich countries share other traits -- they're mostly democracieswith strong property rights traditions, for example -- some studies suggest that it's our institutions that are making us happy, not just the wealth.

　　通常說來，富有的國家幸福指數更高一些。然而，由于許多這些富有的國家具有其他一些特性——比方說，這些國家大多比較民主，具有強大的財產權的慣例——因此一些研究顯示，是我們的體制使我們幸福，而不僅僅是財富。

　　2) Generally speaking, richer people are happier people.But young people and the elderly appear less influenced by having more money.

　　通常說來，富有的人幸福指數更高一些。然而，年輕人和老年人似乎受金錢的影響更小一些。

　　3) But money has diminishing returns-- like just about everything else. Satisfaction rises with income until about $75,000 (or perhaps as high as $120,000). After that, researchers have had trouble proving that more money makes that much of a difference. Other factors -- like marriage quality and health -- become more relatively important than money. It might be the case that richer people use their money to move to richer areas, where they no longer feel rich. Non-economists might chalkthis up to the "keeping up with the Jones'" principle.

　　但是金錢帶來的幸福回報在遞減——就像其他任何事物一樣。滿足感隨著收入的增長而增長，直到年收入達到75,000美元(或者也可能高達120,000美元)。在那之后，研究人員就發現很難證明更多的金錢能起到多大作用了。其他諸如婚姻質量和健康這樣的因素相對來說變得比金錢更加重要。或許事實是這樣：富人利用他們的金錢遷到更富有的地區，而在那里他們卻不再覺得自己富有了。非經濟學人士大概把這一點歸結為“互相攀比”原理。

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