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Pushkin welcome to the second of our two part series focused on the 2025 World Happiness Report.
In the last episode we talked about the decline of shared meals,
but in this episode we'll turn to a chapter that focuses on a different decline.
In it, the French economists Jan Algen,
Karin Blank and Claudia Senig look at the changes in social trust,
particularly the decreases in trust that so many of us have observed post pandemic.
The economists find that there's been a huge reduction in social trust globally,
and they argue
that these changes in trust have led not just to a big hit on our collective happiness,
but also to increases in what they call anti system thinking,
with people rejecting traditional political parties and turning to populism.
I wanted to understand how to make sense of these findings and the implications they're having for well being worldwide.