LIFE: Scandinavian
Happiness. What is the “Lagom”
Life-Style?
By Richard Ruppel, Emeritus Professsor of German and
Comparative Literature
Monday, September 16, 2019
Overview:
1.
Measuring
Happiness
2.
What makes people happy?
3.
Effects of Happiness
4.
Annual United Nations Happiness Report
5.
The Nordic theory of love
a.
Babies
b.
Gender equality
c.
Education
d.
Health Care
6.
Taxation
7.
Lagom and associated Nordic terms
8.
Swedish work vs. Swedish leisure time (harmony
and balance)
9.
Lagom in terms of the Swedish home
10. Lagom
in the World—Sustainability
11. Bibliography
12. Adventure
Tours: Scandinavia in May 2020.
Bibliography for LIFE Presentation:
Scandinavian Happiness.
What is the “Lagom” Life-Style?
Adventure Tours – UWSP – Nordic Walking and Hiking in
Scandinavia, May 2020.
Booth, Michael. The Almost Nearly Perfect People. New York: Picador Paperback Edition, 2016.
Brantmark, Niki. Lagom. The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced,
Happy Life. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2017. [a thorough portrayal of
lagom as philosophy of life/wordview]
Carlsson, Elisabeth. The
Lagom Life. A Swedish way of living. Slovenia: CICO Books, 2016.
[Fine introduction to
the lagom way of life.]
Cycling Without Age.
www.cyclingwithoutage.org
Frey, Bruno S. Economics of Happiness. Cham (Switzerland): Springer International
Publishing AG, 2018. [A concise study, from an economic perspective,
of what makes individuals happy.]
Frey, Bruno S.;
Stutzer, Alois. Happiness & Economics. How the
economy and institutions affect human well-being. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2002. [This is an earlier expanded version of the
above text.]
Mytting, Lars. Norwegian
Wood. Chopping, stacking, Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way. New York:
Abrams Image, 2017? [Wonderfully engaging study on heating with
wood]
Partanen, Anu. The Nordic Theory of Everything. New
York: Harper Collins Publisher, 2016.
[The author contrasts
life in the US with that in Finland based on the Nordic theory of love]
The Annual United Nations World Happiness Report: https://worldhappinessreport
Wiking, Meik. The
Little Book of Hygge. London: Penguin Random House, UK, 2016.
…….The Little Book of
Lykke. London: Penguin Random House, UK,
2017
[Thorough treatment of
Danish happiness by the CEO of the Danish Institute of Happiness]
