Freedom and Flourishing

 This article is about my personal experience in attempting to understand social welfare, the concept of a good society, and my role as an e...

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...

After setting out a few days ago to write about the origins of the concept of progress, I was re-reading portion of The Enlightened Ec...

A good place to begin is with the discussion of the basic goods of “the good life”, by Robert and Edward Skidelsky in their book Ho...

When I was at university studying neoclassical welfare economics - about half a century ago - the standard discussion of the bene...

The pathway above Orion beach, Vincentia, NSW, Australia Over the last few months I have had personal reasons to ponder this question...

There is evidence that a discrepancy between the amount of self-transcending emotion (e.g. love, trust) that people want to feel and wha...

This graph suggests that, at a national level, three quite different indicators of human flourishing tell a similar story about human...

A recent paper by Gus O’Donnell and Andrew Oswald considers the question of how to combine measures of different aspects of subjecti...

Opportunity cost was the first thing that came to mind the other day after the thought occurred that I should perhaps consider making a New...