Will happiness find me?

A concise and engaging exploration of how we understand happiness. What does it mean to feel happiness? As a state of mind, it's elusive. As a concept—despite the pl...

Innes suggests that in the eighteenth century ‘happiness’ was a widely current term which could denote an individual ‘feeling’, a social experience, a spiritual state, or a politic...

This chapter describes the savanna theory of happiness, which posits that it may not be only the consequences of a given situation in the current environment that affect individual...

Orwell had mixed views on happiness. He cast it as the fundamental goal of socialism, but he also denied that socialism had anything to do with happiness. This chapter studies the ...

Does wealth accumulation impact subjective well-being? Within a country, household wealth has been shown to improve individual well-being by providing a safety net of protection ag...

Abstract This book examines and interprets the uncanny similarity between capitalism and socialism over the twentieth century as both systems found ways to encourage...

This chapter explores what we can know about the conceptualization and representation of by poorer Britons. It draws on ‘pauper letters’ to parish authorities, written tactically, ...

Governments rely on certain basic metrics and tools to analyze prospective laws and policies and to monitor how well their countries are doing. In the United States, cost-benefit a...