Have You Got Trust Issues?

This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. Pushkin. Welcome to the second of our two part series focused on the twenty twenty five World Happiness Report.

In the last episode, we talked about the decline of shared meals. Бо і недор that focuses on a different decline. In it, the French economists Jan Algin, Curin Blanc, and Claudia Senic 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. So to help me out, I decided to turn to one of my favorite experts on the science of trust.

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