Season 2, Episode 13: Richard Layard & Jan-Emmanuel De Neve: Wellbeing, Science and Policy

Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and two of the world's leading experts on the economics of wellbeing, Lord Richard Layard and Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve to discuss their newest book, Wellbeing: Science and Policy. Together, they examine how wellbeing can be measured and how it can be promoted today and for future generations.

What produces a happy life and a happy society? Layard’s and De Neve’s new book offers a systematic exploration that brings together a fascinating and vast body of research in the past 20 years. This thought provoking conversation explores the new science of wellbeing and how it can improve public policies and our lives. 

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Footnotes:

• World Happiness Report
• Wellbeing
• Aristotle
• Nicomachean Ethics
• Happiness as GDP
• Martin Seligman
• Subjective Happiness Scale
• Affective Component of Happiness
• Eudaimonia
• Nobel Prize Winner Daniel Kahneman
• Stoicism 
• Positive Psychology
• Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
• Set point - stable point of genetic disposition 
• Twin studies 
• Mental Health Diagnosis with happiness
• Diminishing marginal of impact on wellbeing

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