CEP News: The Conversation: The happiness agenda makes for miserable policy

The Conversation:
The happiness agenda makes for miserable policy

9 January 2014

According to Richard Layard, perhaps the leading advocate of happiness, well-being should be the new ''frontier of the welfare state''.

This article was published online by The Conversation on January 9, 2014
Link to article here

Related publications
Wellbeing and mental health need to be the new frontier for the welfare state, Richard Layard, LSE British Politics and Policy blog, March 7, 2012

Related Links
Richard Layard webpage
Wellbeing Programme webpage