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

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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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