Students! Can We Talk: Can money buy happiness?

Christopher Phelan is a professor and former chair of the department of economics at the University of Minnesota. He has previously taught economics at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison and serves as an advisor to the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He received a BA in economics and computer science from Duke University, and an MA and PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.

Valerie Tiberius is a professor and former chair of the philosophy department at the University of Minnesota, where she has taught since 1998.  She earned her BA from the University of Toronto and her MA and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of The Reflective Life: Living Wisely With Our Limits (Oxford 2008), Moral Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge 2015), Well-Being as Value Fulfillment: How We Can Help Each Other to Live Well (Oxford 2018), What Do You Want out of Life?: A Philosophical Guide to Figuring out What Matters (Princeton 2023), and numerous articles on practical reasoning, prudential virtues, well-being, and the relationship between psychology and ethics.