Finland was recently ranked, for the fifth year in a row, as the world’s happiest country. Trust in others in society plays a large role in what makes people there – and elsewhere – happy.
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Would £184 million make you any happier?
Governments use a variety of labor market policies to support workers who lose their jobs – each with a different impact on a country’s well-being.
Happiness is a human construct, an abstract idea with no biological basis. But this is something to be happy about.
The Republican tax plan would ultimately make the current system less progressive while reducing the overall burden, two things research shows make countries less happy.
People are buying more and more things. But does that make them more contented?
Data shows that voters organizing ballot initiatives on issues like marijuana use and plastic bag bans are doing more than creating DIY laws – they are spreading happiness.
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Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
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Chair, Human Dimensions of Environmental Systems and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Reader in Consumer Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry, King's College London
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Professor of Economics, Nanyang Technological University
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Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, Minerva University
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Researcher, National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies
