"Happiness" is a right enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. Is it a better measure of human "progress" than "Gross National Product?" The king of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan proposed the ...

A retrospective on four previous Republican-driven tax-cut packages found that the results always come up short compared to bullish predictions of economic booms and lower deficits. By Carl Hulse The ...

Bhutan, the tiny kingdom that introduced Gross National Happiness to the world, has a problem: young people are leaving the country in record numbers. The country boasts free health care, free ...

Economists’ continued stranglehold on political discourse is troublesome considering that the unanticipated rise of the Great Recession exposed deep-seated flaws in their theories. What we need is a ...

Democrats and Republicans have two very different visions of America. Which one will make us happier? Who are the happiest Americans? Surveys show that religious people think they are happier than ...