Lord Richard Layard, who informed the public about research at this school, said that the average person has not become happier in the past twenty years, although in this period average per capita income has more than doubled. The London School of Economics found that the vast majority of human (spiritual) misery can be attributed entirely to other factors than poverty - especially demolished human relationships and (physical and mental) illnesses. The fact that in developed countries every third to fourth citizen is on antidepressants and drugs, it is not only worrying but alarming!

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Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (2005) Richard Layard, Penguin Books

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