Happiness
Lessons from a New Science
There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not speculation: It's the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence shows that on average people have grown no happier in the last fifty years, even as average incomes have more than doubled.The central question the great economist Richard Layard asks in Happiness is this: If we really wanted to be happier, what would we do differently? First we'd have... more
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Anthony Seldon He makes it very clear in this book that more trusting people are happier people. (Source)
Jessica Pryce-Jones He strongly makes the case that standard economic policy doesn’t really take into account feelings. (Source)