# Professor Jonathan Haidt illustrates a connection between capitalism and happiness

1 Faculty News November 6, 2015 ![Huffington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/huffpost192x144.jpg?itok=sF2Y0c9v)>

Excerpt from [The Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelle-mcquaid/can-you-make-the-world-ha_b_8486438.html) -- "Rising prosperity can bring rising security, which causes changing values, which causes rising education - especially for women - which causes demographic transition, which causes shrinking population, which benefits our environment. It holds the potential to free us to find more meaning and flourishing."

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