Andrew Oswald
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"Andrew Oswald" was until recently the Acting Research Director at the Institute for the Study of Labor/IZA Institute in Bonn and is a Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, UK. He is an ISI highly cited researcher#ISI Highly Cited/ISI Highly Cited Researcher and has been a Professorial Fellow of the ESRC. He is currently a member of the board of editors of Science. He held previous posts at University of Oxford/Oxford, the London School of Economics, Princeton University/Princeton, Dartmouth College/Dartmouth and Harvard University/Harvard.

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Political feelings are much less independently chosen than people realize. Children mold their parents.

The resilience of Western economies to recent oil shocks has been remarkable.

Recent research suggests that regularly seeing good friends in the local park will bring a greater boost to mental health than having a shiny German automobile parked outside your retirement home. My candid advice to aging Americans would be to use your hard-earned cash to invest much more in friendships than in material items.

What you have in the bank, according to the data, does not matter all that much. What really matters is the gap between what is there and what you think you ought to have. Millionaires can feel relatively poor.