Author Archive for Centre for Thriving Places

The Economics of Happiness Conference is all about solutions to the biggest challenges of our times. In October 2018 we hosted the three day conference, and gathered together people with... read more →

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) recently published their latest estimates of personal wellbeing in the UK. In addition to providing a picture of personal wellbeing at national level, there... read more →

What opportunities lie behind this week’s ONS wellbeing data releases, and why might it profoundly matter to our collective future? Last week 238 leading international academics publically called on the European Union... read more →

Ahead of a global Economic of Happiness conference in the UK in October, Liz Zeidler, chief executive of Happy City, looks back to the financial crash of 2008 and its... read more →

World Cup thrills, Wimbledon shocks, Tour de France Welsh wizardry, a crazy heatwave – the summer of 2018 will be one to remember for all sorts of reasons. At Happy... read more →

Saamah Abdallah, Happy City’s wellbeing advisor, recently attended an OECD advisory meeting discussing the use of wellbeing metrics in policy. In his blog, he reflects on evolving attitudes to wellbeing... read more →

THE MEASURE THAT GETS TO THE HEART OF WHO THE ECONOMY IS REALLY WORKING FOR If there’s one thing that we learned from the political turmoil of the past few... read more →

Stories, stories, stories. They are everywhere – in the papers, on our phones, woven through our histories and inside our heads. The stories we tell and those we absorb become... read more →

The world’s most universal economic system – capitalism – is great at creating wealth. However, this prosperity is nearly always delivered at a cost. For a start, wealth tends to... read more →