How Does the Economy Help the Good Life?

We all learn to deny that money can buy happiness. But there is actually a complex relationship between economic prosperity and human happiness. In this lecture, we'll disentangle the evidence and gain a fuller understanding, both of the nature of human happiness, and the role that work, and prosperity, play in it.

 

Recommended Readings

The Human Advantage by Jay Richards 

Course Years:

2023,
2022,
2020,
2019

Instructor

Jay W. Richards, Ph.D.

Director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family, and the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow
Heritage Foundation