5 March 2005
Prospect of happiness
Happiness is back Prospect’s March cover article by Richard Layard argues that classical objections to utilitarianism, which seeks to maximise the happiness of a society, have been overtaken by science. Income inequalities cost us in physical and social health. Policy should take note.
Income tax is a tax on the rat race. It can help to improve the work-life balance and increase a sense of well-being.
More articles in this issue:
Hooray for Yrp An article by Mark Leonard celebrates the rise of Europe’s ‘soft power’.
A new kind of power has evolved, which cannot be measured in terms of military budgets or smart missiles. It works according to a longer timescale, and it is about reshaping the world rather than getting your way on individual decisions. Europe’s power is “transformative”—based on the idea that everyone wants to be rich and at peace. […] Rather than relying on the threat of intervening to get its way, Europe relies on the threat of not intervening.
Polymath James Wolfensohn is leaving the World Bank after a decade at its head. Sebastian Mallaby tells of the man who took up the ’cello in his 40s under Jacqueline du Pré’s tuition, promising to play in a concert on his 50th birthday — and did so, at Carnegie Hall, on his 60th and 70th birthdays as well. Robert Heinlein said it: Specialisation is for insects.
A new short story not a romance, but a love story, by John Berger
Posted by SJT at March 5, 2005 02:41 PMWe paid the closest attention to each other’s sleep, we never forgot one another. When she was deeply asleep, her breathing was like surf. “You took me to the bottom,” she told me one morning.
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