Freedom and Flourishing

People who visit this blog sometimes ask for more signposts to help them find my answers to the most important questions about freed...

It would be great if the major political parties in all countries of the world were to pursue Wealth Plus as a national objective. Howev...

The villain in Tyler Cowen’s latest book, The Complacent Class : The self-defeating quest for the American Dream, is “us”. Tyler is writing...

I usually try to begin the discussion of topics on my blog by explaining why the question and my answer might be of interest to potential r...

I am asking myself that question because I am trying to come to grips with the findings of the new Gallup-Healthways Global Well-Being Inde...

In my last post I discussed how Christian Welzel’s book,  Freedom Rising has reinforced me in the view that the story of human flourishi...

That was the title of an essay published in The Economist a few weeks ago. For the most part I think the essay is quite good. That j...

Although this blog is still taking a long holiday, I want to write about this issue now because I have been turning it over in the back of ...

This blog is going into recess for a couple of months. Meanwhile, you might like to read some of the most popular posts on the blog, liste...

In Chapter 8 of my book, Free to Flourish , I suggested that the greatest threat to human progress over the next few decades is that democr...

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