The 2018 World Happiness Report features in Freakonomics Radio recent episode How to Be Happy.

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The U.N.’s World Happiness Report — created to curtail our unhealthy obsession with G.D.P. — is dominated every year by the Nordic countries. We head to Denmark to learn the secrets of this happiness epidemic (and to see if we should steal them).

The full podcast episode and transcript of “How to Be Happy” is available on Freakonomics Radio’s website.