An interview with professor Rob Garnett on economics and happiness

Factoring Humanity and Happiness into Economic Calculations

In a Q&A, Rob Garnett, professor of economics, honors professor of social sciences and associate dean in the John V. Roach Honors College, combines economics with happiness and challenges the standard approach to economics. His courses on callings and happiness put economics in dialogue with philosophy, sociology, psychology, anthropology and religion. He works to craft a greater picture of what it means to be a human in an interdependent world.

 

To read the interview, please go to the TCU Magazine's Fall 2019 issue.