Happiness explained: What human flourishing is and how we can promote it by P Annad [book review]

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In his latest book, economist Paul Anand brings the extensive research on the subject to the common man. He does so in a succinct manner, moving seamlessly from first highlighting the over reliance on gross domestic product (GDP) to measure human wellbeing in a country to then providing his own concise, practical framework to measure true fulfilment. Despite the breadth of disciplines that Anand delves into, from psychology to economics to philosophy, he offers a remarkably straightforward four-point guide, which can be employed indifferent contexts and different stages of one’s life to evaluate wellbeing. The four factors are fairness, autonomy, community and engagement: a testament to how social we truly are and how policy makers may need to shift their thinking towards such subjectivity to achieve more promising results in the future.