Sublime

Hartmut Rosa (2016),

Three key features shape these chapters and the resulting rankings sufficiently to warrant some general observations for nonspecialist readers. The first is the curse of diminishing returns.

money and its big brother, gross domestic product (GDP), are poor measures of well-being and happiness.33 Other indicators of social health and happiness not only exist, but are far more revealing. The Human Development Index published by the United Nations Development Programme bundles national income with data about health and education. The Gend

Richer countries, on average, fight fewer wars with each other (chapter 11), are less likely to be riven by civil wars (chapter 11), are more likely to become and stay democratic (chapter 14), and have greater respect for human rights (chapter 14—on average, that is; Arab oil states are rich but repressive). The citizens of richer countries have gr

Data are for GDP per capita at 2011 international dollars.

Hayek gives us the intuition of prices conveying only what market participants deem to be the most important information and actually destroying the rest, and Holland shows how this can be represented with the formalism of complex systems.

Locatable: Data on Where to Live.