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New Zealand?s Next Liberal Milestone: A Budget Guided by `Well-Being?

22 May 2019

"This budget is a game-changing event," said Richard Layard, a professor at the London School of Economics who is an expert on life satisfaction across populations.
New Zealand is not the only country that is starting to rethink whether blunt economic measurements like gross domestic product are the best gauge of a nation's success. But, Dr. Layard said, there has been "no other major country that has so explicitly adopted well-being as its objective."

A SPENDING REVIEW TO INCREASE WELLBEING An open letter to the Chancellor. Report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Wellbeing Economics, May 24, 2019.

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