Meik Wiking

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Ireland might want to look to Denmark, which was ranked number one on the UN’s World Happiness Index for 2013, 2014, and 2016. Photograph: iStock
Happiness economics, ‘hygge’ and the world of work
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  • July 20, 2018, 05:32

The 19th century Scottish writer and philosopher Thomas Carlyle famously called economics “the dismal science”. But much has changed in economics over(...)

There are differences between the way hygge is understood in Denmark and abroad
Irish Hygge: 'Look what good taste I have, look how Instagrammable my house is'

In the first episode of Mad Men, Don Draper tells us what advertising is all about: happiness. “You know what happiness is?” he asks. “Happiness is t(...)

“Now, where did I put that glass of mulled wine?”
We’ve made a hygge mistake: why are we being sold such an Irish concept?

It was inevitable, I suppose. After decades of being told how the French do everything so much better than the rest of us – raising kids, staying t(...)

Meik Wiking, director of Denmark’s institute for happiness research: ‘I never worked so hard, earned so little or had so much fun.’ Photograph: Carlos Manuel Sánchez
Happiness of Danes not just happy coincidence

The interesting thing about Meik Wiking, who studies happiness, is that he’s terribly happy. In fact he’s never been happier. He loves his job as dire(...)