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What the Hell Is Finland Smiling About?
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What the Hell Is Finland Smiling About?

Heaton Visits the Happiest Country on Earth
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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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May 12, 2021
The Nordic Theory of Everything

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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