Climate Change: I Didn’t Do It My Way
When new acquaintances learn of my interest in climate change, most try to change the subject; but when they learn that I used to be very active in financial markets, they often become engaged in the...
View ArticleOn Sustainability and Happiness (Part 2)
In my last post (here), I looked at the mounting evidence that GDP per head is correlated with happiness when tracked for individual countries through time—a finding that goes against the previous...
View ArticleChart of the Day, 31 Jan 2015: Happy Danes, Sad Greeks
The Atlantic has just published a fabulous article entitled “The Danish Don’t Have the Secret to Happiness“. It is a response to a myriad of charts that look like this (taken from a tongue in cheek...
View ArticleWantability, Well-Being and Risk
I’ve been mulling a name change for the blog for some time. The name the “The Rational Pessimist” was a riposte to Matt Ridley’s book “The Rational Optimist“. Ridley’s book is a paean to global free...
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