. Australia and California are two economies having the rare distinction of achieving 150 years of sustained high and rising … controls over immigration or capital movements, or trade policy. Australia did, and after 1900 pursued an increasingly …

countries of Canada, Australia, the USA, Argentina and the rest of Latin America. The resource abundant New World was endowed …

In "Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia," Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …