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19

Happy Economists

June 19, 2008 | 5 Comments | Joshua Gans

A new paper today about how happy economists seem. [HT: Marginal Revolution] To what end, I am not sure.

In honor of this I thought I’d conduct a survey of how happy some Australian economist bloggers appear. The survey is over the fold. (It could be laid out better but I didn’t want to spend more than 10 minutes on this). Results will follow later.

First, here are the pictures ….

       A                   B                    C      

       D                  E                   F


Comments

5 Responses to “Happy Economists”

  1. dk.au on June 19th, 2008 10:25 am

    judging from the suckfully white-balanced thumbnail alone, can you please add a ‘Vampire’ option for ‘F’?

  2. Andrew Leigh » Blog Archive » Are Dismal Scientists Happy? on June 19th, 2008 10:36 am

    [...] Gans is running a survey on perceptions of the happiness of six Australian econ-bloggers. Go here to complete [...]

  3. Chewxy on June 19th, 2008 10:34 pm

    You should smile more. Your smile looks forced

  4. CoreEcon » Blog Archive » Results: Happy Economists on June 20th, 2008 9:13 am

    [...] so here are the results of yesterday’s poll (thanks to Google Spreadsheets). The first number is the average (out of 5 where 5 is ‘Really [...]

  5. Club Troppo » Missing Link Daily on July 22nd, 2008 8:58 am

    [...] a prize for most trivial way of avoiding exam marking, but he’s conducting a survey on how happy Australian econobloggers (including Troppo’s Nicholas [...]