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While many studies find a link between subjective wellbeing and higher income, there are exceptions

As the UK prepares to shut its 'happiness unit' , Paul Ormerod looks at why focusing on GDP is more likely to boost the country's wellbeing.

Americans are richer than they’ve ever been, yet they are less satisfied with life than their peers, including us Canadians

We finally have good data on what makes people happy. Why are we afraid to use it?

“Rethinking our World. An invitation to rescue our future” by political economist Dr Maja Göpel is a well-written, powerful, cogently argued and very useful

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! I don't know many very happy people. I know people who are content enough, I suppose. I know plenty of people who do a decent job at hiding their discontent. (As for myself, I'm probably somewhere in

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The failures of free market fundamentalism and neoliberalism are based on a series of flawed economic assumptions. There is another way.

Past research has attributed happiness to relationships and health

For the sixth year in a row, Finland tops the list for the world’s happiest country. You can download the full report at worldhappiness.report/ed/2023. My own spiritual homeland, Iceland, is number three. In general, Nordic countries are high ranking...