Financial Chronicle:
The weight of weariness
15 August 2014
The economist Richard Layard, after advocating that the goal of public policy should be to maximise happiness, set out to learn what the greatest impediment to happiness was today. His conclusion: depression. Depression causes nearly half of all disability, affects one in six, and explains more current unhappiness than poverty. And (important for public policy) cognitive behavioural therapy has a short-term success rate of 50 per cent.
This article was published in the Financial Chronicle on August 15, 2014Link to article here
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