The pursuit of happiness - here we go

The Veksø Helmets,
in the National Museum of Denmark.

According to the findings of the report The UN Happiness Summit, the happiest countries in the world are all in Northern Europe: Denmark, Norway, Finland, Netherlands. Their average life evaluation score is 7.6 on a 0-to-10 scale.
The first ever World Happiness Report, published by Columbia University's Earth Institute, reflects a new worldwide demand for more attention to happiness and absence of misery as criteria for government policy.
In fact, as pioneering researchers like Carol Graham of the Brookings Institution and the University of Maryland have shown, there’s little correlation between national income and contentment.
This is partly a critique of modernization theory, which suggests that human welfare advances in lockstep with material enrichment.
The last year’s UN conference called on governments to integrate a happiness agenda into public policy. Some proposed steps seem sensible, such as reducing extreme suffering and deprivation, focusing on education, empowering local communities, protecting ecological systems, and investing in mental health.
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