When More Seems Like Less

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
Gregg Easterbrook Senior Editor at the New Republic and a Fellow at the Brookings Institutionand author, The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse (Random House, 2003)
discusses his book, and how modern Americans seem to lead wealthy lives and lack happiness.

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