Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
by Richard Layard
An economist on why rising income has not raised happiness, what does (relationships, work, health, freedom, values), and what policy should do about it. Clear and influential on the wellbeing-policy movement.
Read it if…
you want happiness economics in one readable book.
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Skip it if…
you want personal practice.
Try instead: Og Mandino's Great Trilogy →
Three things you will actually use
- Income matters until it does not.
- Comparison poisons.
- Relationships and work are the levers.
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Read the chapter on the 'big seven' factors.
Our verdict
Happiness economics.
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