The Huffington Post:
The secret of happiness (it's not what you think)
22 June 2015
Money, as the song lyric has it, can't buy you love - or happiness. Happiness, as Richard Layard's research shows, depends much more on the quality of our personal relationships than on our income. In many ways, the most important external factor in well-being is whether we feel this closeness.
This article was published by the Huffington Post on June 22, 2015
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Related publications
Happiness - Lessons from a New Science, Richard Layard, Penguin, 2nd Edition 2011
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Related links
Richard Layard webpage
Wellbeing Programme webpage
Happiness Research webpage