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Today, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published findings for the first time looking at loneliness among children and young people. It’s a topic we hear a lot about at... read more →

Happy City's founding Director Liz Zeidler makes the case for wellbeing as the primary driver of prosperity in advance of the Economics of Happiness conference staged jointly with Local Futures... read more →

Continuing our series of guest blogs highlighting themes of the Economic of Happiness conference this weekend, Nicola Round from Adblock Bristol looks at why people in the city are rising up... read more →

Stewart Wallis, chair of  the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) is a keynote speaker at the Economics of Happiness conference in Bristol, UK (19-21 October). Ahead of his presentation at the conference, Stewart... read more →

Today the Green Party has announced it’s first manifesto commitment: to overthrow the idea that GDP growth is the true measure progress. Happy City have been shouting this message from... read more →

The Economics of Happiness Conference is all about solutions to the biggest challenges of our times. In October 2018 we hosted the three day conference, and gathered together people with... read more →

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) recently published their latest estimates of personal wellbeing in the UK. In addition to providing a picture of personal wellbeing at national level, there... read more →

What opportunities lie behind this week’s ONS wellbeing data releases, and why might it profoundly matter to our collective future? Last week 238 leading international academics publically called on the European Union... read more →

Ahead of a global Economic of Happiness conference in the UK in October, Liz Zeidler, chief executive of Happy City, looks back to the financial crash of 2008 and its... read more →