What Would You Pay to Be Happy?

Source: The GuardianThe source of our happiness is closer than ever to being located, measured and commodified. Alex Renton meets the ‘psychoeconomists’ and asks, have they created a monster? The happiest man in the world is a 67-year-old Buddhist monk called Matthieu Ricard . He starts his day sitting in a meadow in front of his hermitage in Nepal. He watches hundreds of miles of Himalayan peaks glowing in front of him in the rising sun.