During this weeks radio show you will learn about:
- Happy Money and getting the most from your spending
- The science of spending
- Why following your money instincts may not be right
- How money plays with your libido
- What role economics plays in our relationships
Elizabeth Dunn is an associate professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. At age twenty-six, she was featured as one of the “rising stars” across all of academia by the Chronicle of Higher Education. She completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard University, where she worked with Dan Gilbert (bestselling author of Stumbling on Happiness). She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Virginia, and a post-doc in Australia at the University of New South Wales. In 2007, she was selected as an honoree for the UK-based Mind Gym Academic Prize for pioneering work in positive psychology. In 2010, she won the University of British Columbia’s Killam Faculty Research Prize, which honors the university’s most distinguished researchers. Dr. Dunn discussed happiness and money at PopTech 2010. Her work has been has been featured everywhere from The New York Times to FOX & Friends, MSNBC’s Morning Joe, TED, and Forbes.
She is the author of HAPPY MONEY: The Science of Happier Spending.
You can learn more about Elizabeth here.
Marina Adshade has spent the last ten years teaching economics and engaging in original economic research. In 2008, she launched an undergraduate course titled Economics of Sex and Love, which invited her students to approach questions of sex and love through an economist’s lens. The class was an immediate hit with students and, by the time the first term started, had generated international media attention. As a writer, Dr. Adshade hit her groove the moment she launched her blog, Dollars and Sex, attracting over three quarters of a million unique visitors. Today she teaches at the University of British Columbia’s Vancouver School of Economics.
Dr. Adshade is a regular contributor to The Globe and Mail and Time.com and has written for The Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Times (UK), the Daily Mail (UK), Psychology Today and Buzzfeed. A sought-after speaker and commentator, she has made numerous TV appearances on CTV and CBC, interviews on CBC Radio and National Public Radio (US), online panel discussions, international and domestic print media and podcasts in Canada and the US.
You can read more about Marina here.
