What produces a happy society and a happy life? Richard Layard and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve suggest that through the new science of wellbeing, we can now answer this question empirically. Explaining how wellbeing can be measured, what causes it, and how it can be improved, they argue we are only at the beginning of a transformation in the ability to base decision making on the outcomes that matter most, namely the wellbeing of us all including future generations.

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27 March 2023

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LSE Impact of Social Sciences

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/03/27/a-new-science-of-wellbeing-will-change-policy-and-decision-making/

This Blog is published under the centre's Community Wellbeing programme.

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