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Public policy and the hegemony of happiness

Annie Austin By Filed Under: Featured Posted:

Policy fetishism about GDP is being replaced by an unthinking devotion to simplistic happiness indicators, warns Annie Austin. “In a decade’s time we’re going to be using happiness as the sole basis for judging the impact of public policy.” So stated Paul Dolan recently in the opening sequence of ITV’s Tonight programme, entitled ‘Is Britain […]

The Spirit Level – Wilkinson and Pickett

Colin Talbot By Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted:

A new book has been causing a bit of a stir in policy circles in the UK – ‘The Spirit Level’ is not another diatribe for or against God, as the name might suggest, but a book about equality.

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