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Author: Gordon D. A. Brown

Money creates happiness? Only if you’re richer than your friends

Earning more money only makes you happy if it makes you richer than your neighbours

Happiness linked to friends’ wealth

Happiness linked to friends’ wealth

Study says money only makes you happy if it makes you richer than your neighbours

Study says money only makes you happy if it makes you richer than your neighbours

Money ‘only makes you happy if you have more than neighbours’

‘Doing better than the Joneses,’ the key to happiness!

Happiness lies in earning more than peers!

Income rank and upward comparisons

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