Remember when I spoke of the Easterlin paradox (a key concept in happiness economics postulated by Richard Easterlin in the 1974 paper "Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence."[1]
It finds that, contrary to expectation, happiness at a national level
does not increase with wealth once basic needs are fulfilled). I also spoke of Engineering Happiness
Now, Nature returns on similar concepts with this.
China: The prizes and pitfalls of progress
by ature 454, 398 (2008). doi:10.1038/454398a
Pushes to globalize science must not threaten local innovations in developing countries, argues Lan Xue.
We could discuss also in connection to Zhigang's Memories of IT. Part 1
Zhigang, I await for your comments!