Education

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Smith advocated a large government role educating the common people. He feared that the effects of the division of labor would make workers incapable of the critical thinking needed by citizens in a democracy. Implicitly, he connected education and happiness. The American founders connected education and happiness explicitly. Economists recognize the economic and happiness benefits of investments in education. Research has shown a relationship between government higher education expenditures and happiness. Given that educational attainment affects economic equality, solutions such as universal early childhood education and containing the higher education cost spiral must be developed. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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