World happiness report

by | Nov 23, 2012 | Research Publications

Author(s):

  • Helliwell, John
  • Layard, Richard
  • Sachs, Jeffrey

Abstract:

The report, published by the Earth Institute and co-edited by the institute’s director, Jeffrey Sachs, reflects a new worldwide demand for more attention to happiness and absence of misery as criteria for government policy. It reviews the state of happiness in the world today and shows how the new science of happiness explains personal and national variations in happiness.

Document:http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/47487/

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