Rtlnieuws.nl:
Wij eisen geluk!/We demand happiness!
25 January 2015
Despite the reservations you can make there, we find that the British are busy with something special. That is why we went to London to investigate where they, four years after Cameron's speech, with measuring well-being and their use for policy. We talked to the economist Richard Layard, with Diane Coyle (who last year wrote ''GDP: a brief but affectionate history of GDP'') and with Charles Seaford of the New Economics Foundation. And we went along to Valerie Fender, head economist of well-being at the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the British CBS. There they should see the beautiful words of Cameron to translate into practical 'management information' for politicians.
This article was published online by Rtlnieuws.nl on January 25, 2015
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Related links
Richard Layard webpage
Wellbeing Programme webpage
Happiness Research webpage