How would public policy change if raising our wellbeing was the objective?
An international conference is being staged at LSE to discuss wellbeing.
Should government be focussing its attention on getting a little bit of extra cash to the JAMs - the Just About Managing - or should they focus not on the state of people's bank balances but their wellbeing instead?
An international conference is being staged at LSE which will make just that argument.
The ambition is for the conference to have as big an impact on policies on wellbeing around the world as the OECD鈥檚 1961 conference on human capital, which propelled education to the centre of global policy-making.
Economist Professor Lord Richard Layard, director of the Wellbeing Programme at the LSE explains.
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