David Brooks’ column in today’s New York Times talks about the gap facing American voters. It’s not between right and left, not between rich and poor, but between voters’ ‘private optimism and their public gloom’. It seems American voters are upbeat about their own lives, with the majority satisfied about their jobs, income, and future… Continue reading Plugging the voters’ happiness gap
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The politics of happiness
Last week I reviewed a book about the happiness ‘problem’ – the reality that although (US) incomes have doubled in the last 50 years, people are no happier. In that book much of the onus for fixing the problem was placed on society. Now I’m a big fan of individual power, but it did get… Continue reading The politics of happiness