Freedom and Flourishing

  I don’t think anyone has ever asked me the question posed above. When I tell people that I am an economist, some of them ask about my view...

  The kid in the photo believed that the material world is an illusion. Those beliefs about the nature of reality probably led him to be som...

  I have dedicated the book to those who reflect on what it means to be a flourishing human. When individuals think about their own person...

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...

This might seem like an odd question, so I will begin by explaining why I think it is worth considering. Psychological well-being ...

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...

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

Readers who don’t recognise the faces depicted in my amateurish artwork might be thinking that the question is absurd because opposite...

This question is not just an intellectual puzzle. The way we answer it has important practical implications. The main point I want to ma...