613 – Topics

00:03 A measure of happiness: official happiness surveys, pursuit of happiness and freedom, Leger Canadian Happiness Index, definitions of happiness, values and happiness, life as the ultimate value, pleasure and pain

13:20 What did you expect: a sense of freedom, money and happiness, altruism, expectations of happiness, measuring happiness with math, optimism and pessimism, truth vs hope

32:40 Ontario’s dissatisfaction: Ontario at bottom of Leger happiness index, Paris School of Economics measures France’s happiness, globalization, gross national unhappiness, socialism and unhappiness

49:05 Just great: national greatness and happiness, United Nations’ happiness index, money and happiness, earning and having, conflicting definitions, a necessary condition

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