What makes a happy society? Why do some countries rank consistently at the top in the World Happiness Report? What role do issues of equity play in collective happiness? This section will explore what sort of society allows people to live well and how we can create a happy and egalitarian society. While exploring various measures of individual and collective well-being, we will also problematize the idea of individual happiness and current notions of self-help. Among other texts, we will focus on Anu Partanen's The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life and we will compare and contrast life in the United States with life in the Nordic countries, particularly in Finland and Denmark.
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