Wellbeing

Wellbeing

by Richard Layard and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 27/09/2023

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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.

ISBN:
9781009298933
9781009298933
Category:
Microeconomics
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
27-09-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Richard Layard

Richard Layard is founder and former director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He is the author of the ground-breaking Happiness- Lessons from a New Science (2005), which has been published in nineteen languages, and (with David Clark) Thrive: The Power of Psychological Therapies (2014). He is co-editor (with John Helliwell and Jeffrey Sachs) of the annual World Happiness Report, and has been instrumental in the development of improving access to psychological therapies in the UK.

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve is Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at the University of Oxford, where he also directs the Well-Being Research Centre. His research has been published in top academic journals, including Science, Nature, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Psychological Science, Management Science, Journal of Political Economy, and the British Medical Journal.

His research was selected among "The Management Ideas That Mattered Most" by Harvard Business Review. He is the coauthor, with Richard Layard, of the main textbook on wellbeing science and an editor of the World Happiness Report.

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