Happiness
This house believes that new measures of economic and social progress are needed for the 21st-century economy.
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Background reading
Economics focus: The joyless or the jobless
The idea of progress: Onwards and upwards
Affluence: Happiness (and how to measure it)
Happiness and economics: Economics discovers its feelings
Standards of living: Beyond GDP
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