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The right balance: the economics of happiness

13 January 2015

What makes people happy? Measuring human happiness is increasingly becoming a pursuit of economists, who use a range of research tools to gauge and quantify popular contentment at a national level. A common factor is money, but that's far from the whole story, as we find out in this edition of Real Economy. ... In London we meet Baron Richard Layard, a leading labour economist who explains the complexities of measuring happiness.

This article was published by RealEconomy on January 13, 2015
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Related links
Richard Layard webpage
Wellbeing Programme webpage
Happiness Research webpage

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