Finland routinely winds up at the top of global happiness surveys. Why?
In this episode, I flew to Helsinki to wander around and chat up locals. Trying to figure out why:
Their social trust is so teeteringly high
How their social safety nets work
How this combines to result in their contentedness.
So that we can steal all that, and replicate it.
Relevant Episode: The Nordic Theory of Everything
The Nordic Theory of Everything
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What are Nordic countries up to and should we emulate or invade them? What policies might we plagiarize or rebuff? Anu Partanen is the author of "The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life," and comes to discuss the relationship between families and the state, individualism, and safety nets in a Scandinavian context.
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