Freedom and Flourishing

  I t is worth visiting Meghalaya just to see waterfalls, such as Nohkhalikai falls, shown above. Located near Cherrapunji, this is tallest ...

A recent paper by Gus O’Donnell and Andrew Oswald considers the question of how to combine measures of different aspects of subjecti...

Think about how you felt yesterday. Did you feel much pain, worry, sadness, stress or anger? If you felt less of those negative emotions th...

Jeffrey Sachs has described his essay, ‘Restoring Virtue Ethics in the Quest for Happiness’ as highly speculative . That description is ap...

A few days ago Hemlal Mainaly, a Bhutanese asylum seeker living in Germany, offered to provide information for my blog about the problems h...

‘Our own concept of happiness is, in its essentials, the eighteenth-century concept that emerges after the trial narrative has wrought its...

A draft of the final chapter of ‘Free to Flourish’, the book I am writing, has just been uploaded to the book’s web site . My aim in t...

The release of the UN’s ‘ World Happiness Report ’, edited (and to a large extent authored) by John Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey ...

I have previously expressed the view on this blog that if progress is to have any meaning from a public policy perspective it must mean m...

Yes! I explain why in the draft of Chapter 5 of the book I am writing. This chapter is now available on the book’s web site . The ques...

In my last post, ‘ Can happiness be aggregated? ’, I suggested that any statement about aggregate happiness or gross national happiness (G...

My starting point for this post is take it as given that everyone agrees that for public policy purposes it is appropriate to view happine...

Some readers will know exactly what I mean by this question. Others may be wondering: Where is Bhutan? What does he mean by success? And w...