Mark's Blog

Listening to the disaffected won't be so straightforward

Thinking about equity

Being triggered is good for you

Why deliberative democracy is undemocratic

Eastern wisdom: what Asian development can teach us about happiness

A letter reviewing Seligman's 'Flourish'

A diatribe against the Canberra Light Rail project

Some stream of consciousness ranting about liberal ‘elites’ stumbling like a baby giraffe when it comes to blue collar workers shooting themselves in the foot.

India needs to harness the market instead of fighting it

Review: Stability of Happiness: theories and evidence on whether happiness can change, by Kennon M. Sheldon and Richard E. Lucas eds.

Generalising the middle-income trap

India’s demographic dividend strait-jacketed by labour regulations

Confusion about -isms is compounding schisms

Maths is not science, and it doesn't produce knowledge

Matt Bruenig is an idiot

Preview of Review of 'Happiness and Economic Growth'

Happiness literature pet peeve - The tricks of mood management

Why a Sanders preselection would be a disaster for the American left

Correlation, causation and the American racial divide

Socialism is worse than capitalism - you want a welfare state

Happiness literature pet peeve — The Average Effect

Summary of Fabian's theory of happiness

Towards a grand theory of happiness: preliminary model specifications