In A Handbook for Wellbeing Policy-Making, Paul Frijters and Christian Krekel offer a new guide to wellbeing-driven public policy, focusing on the proposal to replace GDP with wellbeing as the key metric to assess societal progress. With the book comprehensively exploring the theoretical and methodological assumptions and implications of the wellbeing approach, Paulo Anciaes recommends this timely work to practitioners at all levels of government.

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6 July 2022

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LSE Review of Books

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2022/07/06/book-review-a-handbook-for-wellbeing-policy-making-by-paul-frijters-and-christian-krekel/

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