References

The Happonomy model and the studies it is built on

"It's the economy, stupid"

Dirty Money – Microbes on banknotes

Belgians sleep 505 minutes per night

Randy Gardner, world record holder for staying awake

Belgians and fear of change – Hofstede

The impact of physical disabilities on happiness is limited

Loneliness leads to heart problems

Children raised by animals

The myth of 10,000 hours of practice

The prehistoric gift economy

The first forms of money

Rum as a means of payment

Marco Polo brought bills of exchange from the Far East to Europe

Moshenskyi, Sergii (2008). History of the weksel: Bill of exchange and promissory note. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-4363-0694-2.

America abandons the gold standard

Woodrow Wilson's Federal Reserve Act allows private organisations to create money

German economists consider abolishing paper money

How commercial banks create money

The European Central Bank

Bank for International Settlements

The ratio between physical and digital money

The concept of the minimum reserve ratio

Minimum reserve ratios across countries

Who controls money creation – Central Banks or Commercial Banks?

Who controls the world?

3G Capital

The limited link between money and job satisfaction, a meta-analysis

A pay rise can be demotivating

Primates value fairness in cooperation

The link between social class and antisocial behaviour

More money appears to lead to less empathy

The psychological consequences of money

Does money make you mean?

The symbolic power of money

The first 3D-printed pill

Calico

The impact of student loans on the mental health of young Americans

Socio-economic differences in language skills and vocabulary, evident from 18 months

EEGs reveal differences between poor and rich children

Health effects of financial debt, a systematic review

With poverty comes depression, more than other illnesses

Researchers find a correlation between financial arguments and lower relationship satisfaction

The emotional effects of debt

Economic suicides during the recession in Europe and the US

The Easterlin paradox

A growing GDP does increase happiness

Experienced happiness and remembered happiness

Subjective wellbeing and income, is there satiation?

Income inequality, or why economic growth does not always lead to more happiness

The super-rich are just as miserable as the rest of us

Sudden wealth syndrome

The Giving Pledge

The economic impact of income inequality

Trust, social participation and income inequality

1 billion people left extreme poverty

Population of the BRICS countries

Gini coefficient

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

Trans Pacific Partnership

Does TTIP make economic sense?

Job security as one of the most important conditions for a good job

The crisis and reforms to national labour law

The EU labour market is mainly stagnating and shrinking

Job losses caused by the TTIP treaty?

Job creation after 2008 largely found in the public sector

People with a job who became unemployed the following year

Two in three employees experience excessive stress at work

Presenteeism rises out of fear of job loss

Poverty among self-employed entrepreneurs in Belgium

Comparative study of the costs of farmers' markets and supermarkets

Starbucks reports a drop in sales due to a customer boycott

Yellow Cab, San Francisco's largest taxi company, files for bankruptcy

The ostrich effect

The EU labour market in 2015

Baxter Robot

Kiva Robots, automated transport in warehouses

The Hofstede index for Belgium

Spread, the fully automated salad factory

Foxconn wants to replace 1 million people with robots

Samsung wants to replace all human factory workers with robots by 2018

MIT researches how to build management software for robots

Zalando grows by 30% per year

European e-commerce grows by 15% per year

Dark Stores

Bart Smit disappears in the Netherlands

The 10 American retailers closing the most stores

The virtual sales assistant is a success at Asda

McDonald's installs 7,000 self-service kiosks

Bricklaying robot can build a house in two days

Robot can print insulation onto building façades

Roof inspection by a robot

A steel bridge is 3D-printed in Amsterdam

Artificial intelligence and civil engineers

Drones are used to map terrain

Architecture assembled by drones

Robarch, the association for robots in architecture

Brokk's remote-controlled demolition robots

Husqvarna's demolition robot

The robot that washes concrete off walls

Labour market indicators in the eurozone

Eurozone labour market growth

Fair Income Inequality

The day we have used up all the resources for that year

Gravity Payments: the story of the company that equalised all salaries