In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zeigen, dass sich Lebenszufriedenheit messen lässt, dass es objektive und veränderbare Gründe für mehr oder weniger glückliche Menschenleben gibt. Das ist eine sensationelle Nachricht, die Folgen haben muss in den Ministerien und im Parlament in Berlin, in...

Societal progress is characterized primarily as an improvement in the distribution of wellbeing; however, a small set of additional variables are also necessary. Social indicators based on objective measures are inherently limited by the subjective assessments necessary of "experts" to select...