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Ce que nous dit l?indicateur du bonheur sur l?etat du monde/What the happiness indicator tells us about the state of the world
20 December 2017
Moreover, despite the birth of a true sub-discipline of economics - the economy of happiness - it will still take more than 40 years between the publication of the great article founder Richard A. Easterlin ("Does money buy happiness?") And the publication of the first annual report on happiness 2012 that he will sign with another prolific economist on the subject, Richard Layard. Certain methodological choices may be questioned, but not their intellectual honesty or empathy for the happiness of peoples. As Amartya Sen says about Richard Layard, his only problem was to make happiness the ultimate goal of everyone and happiness declared an objective measure of well-being. It is now clear that this is "subjective" happiness declared on a scale of 0 to 10.