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5. Saunders, Ecstasy, 117.
6. Saunders, Ecstasy, 117–18.
7. The first quotation is from the Woody Allen film Love and Death. The second is from Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, trans. E. E. J. Payne, 2 vols. (New York: Dover, 1969), 2:586.
MONEY
1. Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, ed. Knud Konssen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 211–14, 216.
2. Frank M. Andrews and Stephen Withey, Social Indicators of Well-Being: Americans’ Perceptions of Life Quality (New York: Plenum Press, 1976), 332.
3. Joseph Veroff, Elizabeth Douvan, and Richard A. Kulka, The Inner American: A Self-Portrait from 1957 to 1976 (New York: Basic Books, 1981), 98.
CHAPTER 9: HAPPILY EVER AFTER
1. Robert E. Lane, The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 2000).
2. Princeton Research Associates, July 12–15, 1994, cited in American Enterprise, November–December 1994, 99.
3. Philip Brickman and Donald T. Campbell, “Hedonic Relativism and Planning the Good Society,” in Adaptation-Level Theory, ed. M. H. Appley (New York: Academic Press, 1971).
4. Isaac M. Lipkus, Claudia Dalbert, and Ilene C. Siegler, “The Importance of Distinguishing the Belief in a Just World for Self Versus for Others: Implications for Psychology of Well-Being,” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 22 (1996): 666–77.
5. Lane, Loss of Happiness, 73.
6. Sara J. Solnick and David Hemenway, “Is More Always Better?: A Survey on Positional Concerns,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 37, no. 3 (1998): 373–83.
7. D. A Schade and D. Kahneman, “Does Living in California Make People Happy? A Focusing Illusion in Judgments of Life Satisfaction,” Psychological Science 9, no. 5 (1998): 340–529.
8. Elizabeth W. Dunn, T. D. Wilson, and D. T. Gilbert, “Location, Location, Location: The Misprediction of Satisfaction in Housing Lotteries,” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 29, no. 11 (2003): 1421–32.
9. These numbers come from the useful if overly rosy charts and statistics book by Theodore Caplow, Louis Hicks, and Ben J. Wattenberg, The First Measured Century: An Illustrated Guide to Trends in America (Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 2000).
10. Gregg Easterbrook, The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse (New York: Random House: 2003), 17. As with the book above, this too suffers from a too sunny view of today’s poor.
11. Ronald Inglehart and Jacques-René Rabier, “Aspirations Adapt to Situations—But Why Are the Belgians So Much Happier Than the French? A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Subjective Quality of Life,” in Research on the Quality of Life, ed. Frank M. Andrews (Ann Arbor, MI: Institute for Social Research, 1986), 46.
12. Lane, Loss of Happiness, 62.
13. See Pleij, Dreaming of Cockaigne, 387.
14. Christian Schneller, Märchen und Sagen aus Wälschtirol: Ein Beitrag zur deutschen Sagenkunde (Innsbruck: Wagner’schen Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1867), 9–10.
15. Perrault added a coda that specifically warned girls not to be seduced by the wolf—indeed, to be most wary, not of the violent attacker, but of the nicest, sweetest-talking, and seemingly gentlest of suitors. Charles Perrault, Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des moralités: Contes de ma mère l’Oye (Paris, 1697), as cited in Andrew Lang, The Blue Fairy Book (London, n.d., ca. 1889), 51–53.
16. Aesop gives us another fairy tale in which a wolf, passing by a cottage, overhears a nurse tell a baby to stop crying or she will give him to the wolves. The wolf does not realize that this is an idle threat and settles in for the feast. (He is later killed.) This is not baby care at its best, but in an illustration of the story we see that a broom lies in the foreground, abandoned midsweep because of the baby’s wailing. This nurse is angry enough to be dangerous. The threat of the wolf could be a symbol for a lot of violence, fear, and desire. Marina Warner, From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (New York: Noonday, 1994),