The Geography of Bliss
education, public health December 29th, 2007
The New York Times reviews the book, The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner. In this book, the author travels the world to try and quantify what makes people happy, and what countries are the happiest.
It’s an interesting exercise, and sounds like a funny book. I linked to the World Database of Happiness a few weeks ago in one of our Top 5 Links of the Week. Turns out that this repository of happiness research in the Netherlands was the author’s first stop.
It’s interesting that happiness research is a growing field, and that the place that we live factors largely in our happiness. There certainly isn’t a formula for happiness though, with researchers admitting that their findings are often contradictory.
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