... and the Pursuit of Happiness: Wellbeing and the Role of Government - ed. Philip Booth

This publication, edited by Philip Booth, takes issue with the idea that government can and should act to increase happiness. Philip Booth states the following: 'he government is spending money on collecting happiness statistics in order to promote government policies to try to increase aggregate national happiness. This is a flawed policy and based on a complete misconception that governments hitherto have focused only on increasing national income.'

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