Freedom and Flourishing

  The highlights of my recent trip to south-west India included visiting waterfalls and historical sites, seeing elephants and tigers in the...

  I asked myself whether it is possible for humans to flourish if they don't live good lives after reading an article by Markus Knee and...

  Norms of Liberty is a work of political philosophy written by Douglas B Rasmussen and Douglas J Den Uyl, and published in 2005. The blu...

  I have previously written on this blog about the relationship between nature connectedness and happiness. In one essay , written in 2015, ...

  I don’t think anyone has ever asked me the question posed above. When I tell people that I am an economist, some of them ask about my view...

  The kid in the photo believed that the material world is an illusion. Those beliefs about the nature of reality probably led him to be som...

  I have dedicated the book to those who reflect on what it means to be a flourishing human. When individuals think about their own person...

When you think about Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, what is the image that appears in your mind? I expect that most people who h...

This might seem like an odd question, so I will begin by explaining why I think it is worth considering. Psychological well-being ...