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What produces a happy society and a happy life? Thanks to the new science of wellbeing, we can now answer this question using state-of-the-art empirical evidence. This transforms our ability to base our decisions on the outcomes that matter most, namely the wellbeing of us all including future generations. Written by two of the world's leading experts on the economics of wellbeing, this book shows how wellbeing can be measured, what causes it and how it can be improved. Its findings are profoundly relevant to all social sciences, including psychology, economics, politics, behavioural science and sociology. A field-defining text on a new science that aims to span the whole of human life, this will be an invaluable resource for undergraduate and graduate students, policy-makers and employers, who can apply its insights in their professional and private lives. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Richard Layard
Richard Layard is Co-Director of the Wellbeing Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance, and Emeritus Professor of Economics at the LSE. He is one of the world's leading experts on the economics of wellbeing. He has written six books on the subject including Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (2005; translated into 20 languages). Until 2000 he worked on unemployment, co-writing the leading book Unemployment (1991). He is a member of the Hose of Lords and an active campaigner for better policy-making.
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Jan-Emmanuel de Neve
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve is professor of economics and behavioral science at the University of Oxford, where he directs the Wellbeing Research Centre. His research, published in top academic journals, was included among "The Management Ideas That Mattered Most" by Harvard Business Review. He is an editor of the World Happiness Report and coauthor of the preeminent textbook on wellbeing science.
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