Happiness & Public Policy

Essays, articles, and studies by me bearing on happiness and public policy

» In Pursuit of Happiness Research: Is It Reliable? What Does It Imply for Policy?” Cato Institute Policy Analysis no. 590, April 11, 2007

» The Quest for a Scientific Politics of Happiness, Cato Unbound, April 16, 2007

» Depressed Markets?, Reason, December 2006.

» Growth is Good, Prospect, October 2006

» Love Thy PlayStation, Love Thyself, Slate, May 11, 2006 (with Reihan Salam)

» Review of The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth by Benjamin M. Friedman [pdf], Cato Journal, Volume 26, Number 1, Winter 2006

» Happiness is…Higher Taxes, Reason, February 2006. (Review of Richard Layard’s Happiness: Lessons from a New Science)

» The Great Depression, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, November 20, 2005