The Independent:
Richard Layard: 'Money is not the only thing affecting people's happiness'
13 July 2014
How could we become a happier nation? One pioneering economist has spent the best part of a decade arguing that we simply must find an answer to this question - gaining the support of David Cameron, who backed the notion of happiness as ''the new GDP''. That economist won't let it drop. He wants to reignite the whole debate and go further still. This is why the shocking facts come thick and fast in Professor Lord Richard Layard's new book, and in conversation when we meet.
This article was published in The Independent on Sunday 13 July, 2014
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Related Publications
Thrive: the Power of Evidence Based Psychological Therapies, Richard Layard, David M Clark, Penguin, July 2014
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Related Links
Richard Layard webpage
David Clark webpage
Wellbeing Programme webpage