In an excerpt from The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality, Richard Heinberg argues it’s time to start paying more attention to national happiness instead.

The University of Southern California, where he was an emeritus professor, called him the “father of happiness economics” in announcing his death. Mr. Easterlin died at 98 on Dec. 16 at his ...

Di Tella, Rafael, Alberto Alesina, and Robert MacCulloch. "Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?" Journal of Public Economics 88, nos. 9-10 (August 2004): 2009–42.

Estimating the value of time for wellbeing policy Dr Christian Krekel discusses his current research and recent advances in behavioural welfare economics that use people’s self-reported life ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Richard Easterlin died in December at the age of 98. He’s been called “the father of happiness economics ...

The Economics of Happiness' features a chorus of voices from six continents calling for systemic economic change. The documentary describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions.