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The Economist:
Happy now?

27 March 2014

The commission's authors (who include Richard Layard, an academic who has long supported more use of well-being indices in policy), favour the second measure of general satisfaction with life. More comprehensive cross-country measurements, they suggest, might help governments adopt useful innovations from other countries. Many considerations turn out to be widely shared across cultures. Work matters more for psychological reasons than pecuniary ones. Trust in one's local community figures highly as a source of mental ease. Physical environments and good urban planning also figure highly . Emotional health might be enhanced by inculcating virtues like resilience more energetically at school.

This article was published by the Economist online on March 27, 2014
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Related Publication
'Wellbeing and Policy', Gus O'Donnell, Angus Deaton, Martine Durand, David Halpern and Richard Layard, Legatum Institute Report, March 2014
Link to report here

Related Links
Richard Layard webpage
Gus O'Donnell webpage
Wellbeing Programme webpage

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