By Calum Rosie Calum Rosie is a writer based in Edinburgh, and is a correspondent for Immigration Advice Service. He writes about his personal views on social housing as it relates to a Wellbeing Economy, for WEAll’s ‘Wellbeing Economy Correspondents’ guest blog series. Wellbeing Economy Correspondents is a series highlighting the first-hand experiences of individuals who […]
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about many revelations that forced everyone to reassess. Amidst the challenges and difficulties, it showed that a holistic and unified approach trumped a profit-centred individualistic mindset. Rather than just striving to return to “normal”, we are seeing more countries promising to build back better. In fact, thanks to vaccinations, a transition […]
by: Rabia Abrar Are you a bit uncomfortable using Facebook and other social media platforms these days – but don’t feel like you can stop using them? 😰 You’re not alone! After all, one of our five universal human needs is connection! That’s why we’re all on social media platforms to begin with. With all […]
by: Marco Senatore Many have said that after COVID-19, the world will have to embrace a totally new path. We will need new instruments to make this happen. The main reason why our current market economies do not serve human beings is, in a nutshell, the following: the means have become the ends. That is […]
By Xola Keswa Today, Africa has the youngest population in the world. Why is this important to note? Because the Earth is inherited by the young people of the world. Today, young Africans are not faced with the same threats that threatened their ancestors such as lions or other wild animals. Instead, we face our […]
Wohlbefinde – “Wellbeing” Eh Ökonomie fürs Wohlbefinde – “A Wellbeing Economy” Swiss German Switzerland is a country that always scores very high in rankings such as “the world’s happiest countries” and “best standards of living”, and that people living elsewhere often associate with beautiful nature, tasty chocolate, and very expensive prices. In many ways, Switzerland […]
By: Rabia Abrar Over the last 24 hours, like everyone else, I’ve cycled through an overwhelming series of emotions: disbelief, frustration, anger, helplessness, sadness, dread. I felt especially sad because, while yesterday’s violent acts of white supremacy in Washington D.C. are news, white supremacy and the institutional and systemic racism1 that enables it, is far from new. […]
It goes without saying that this has been a difficult year for everyone. The global pandemic has made the injustice, unsustainability, and fragility of our current economic system clearer than ever – and exposed the urgency of transforming our economic system. The good news is that WEAll has made significant progress this year in our […]
By Izabela Ivanova Velikova Визии за Благополучната Икономика в България “Visions for the Wellbeing Economy in Bulgaria” Bulgarian (sounds like /vizii/ /za/ /blagopoluchnata/ /ikonomika/ /v/ /bulgaria/) Благополучна “Wellbeing” Bulgarian (sounds like /blagopoluchna/) Being a country with a 14 century history, Bulgaria has gone through many transformations, which inevitably had their impact on the way that […]
By: Avwerosuoghene Onobrakpeya for Swedish Organization for Global Health (SOGH) A multi-diverse country, made up of over 200 million citizens, and about 250 ethnic groups, where more than 500 languages are spoken. This is Nigeria. And so, we have coined many ways of describing ‘wellbeing’. To mention just a few: The Yorubas call it Alafia, […]
By: Anna Chrysopoulou Κοινωνική ευημερία: collective wellbeing (sounds like /kee-no-nee-kee/ /e-vee-me-ree-ah/) Οικονομία της ευτυχίας: Wellbeing Economy (sounds like /oy-kon-o-me-ah/ /tis/ / ef-tee-hee-ahs/) Greece is a country with several linguistic terms to define the concept of ‘wellbeing’: ευημερία (e-vee-me-ree-ah), ευ ζην (ev zeen), and ευδαιμονία (ev-de-mo-nee-ah). The latter, especially, appears extensively in Greek ethics and […]
By: Christopher Boyce I’d been writing about wellbeing for years. In fact, I’d published loads on the subject; an ‘expert’ you might say. Yet, the really curious thing was that when I thought about my own life, how I spent my time (mostly working), whether I had neighbours I could rely upon (eerily quiet stairwells), […]
by Rabia Abrar COP26, the UN Global Climate Summit, was originally meant to have taken place in Glasgow starting this Monday – but it was delayed until next year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the event has been delayed, the urgency to address the climate crisis remains the same. ‘Unusual suspects’, as some may […]
by: Sandra Waddock There is a lot of talk today about bouncing ‘back’ or returning to what passed for normal before the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the world and everyone’s lives. But there is a huge problem with that idea. By the nature of complexity and wicked problems in social systems, complex systems simply cannot return to prior states once change […]
by: Erinch Sahan A fundamental change is sweeping across the business world. Big ideas are spreading, new slogans being echoed, and the very purpose of business being questioned. A host of concepts and initiatives are driving this conversation. From BCorps to Social Enterprise, Cooperatives to Shared Value, the market-place of ideas is heating up. These are […]
By Arhum Amer Urdu is spoken as a first language by nearly 70 million people and as a second language by more than 100 million people, predominantly in Pakistan[i]. Urdu is a language full of beauty and grace, a language that seems to have been custom-built for literature, a language that adds meaning to prose and charm to […]
Andrea Somma Genta 1973 to 2020 It is with sadness, but also love and admiration that we put pen to paper (or finger to keyboard, to be precise) to share some thoughts about our friend, and partner in working to change the world, Andrea Somma Genta. Andrea passed away recently, peacefully and with her loved […]
by: Xola Keswa Impilo econo kuqala kwesimosomnoto – Wellbeing economy Zulu South Africa is a country that many greats, including Nelson Mandela, Elon Musk, Mark Shuttleworth, Steve Biko, Mariam Makeba, Trevor Noah, and Mahatma Gandhi, have called home. People will tell very different stories of their experiences in our beautiful country, depending on when they […]
by Beth Cloughton and Anna Murphy It’s been over a year since WEAll Read was created – so Anna and I thought we’d get together for a (virtual) debrief… B: Hi Anna. Thinking about a ‘Wellbeing Economy’, can you tell me what your definition and/or approach to this term is? A: Of course. A Wellbeing […]
by Rutger de Roo van Alderwerelt In exploring topics for my MSc thesis in Financial Economics, I came across the concept of a Wellbeing Economy. With my primary academic focus on the economic impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) in international financial markets, I found few academic articles that relate this field to conceptualising a Wellbeing […]
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