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Enrichment

Can the government make us happy? Should it try?

Geoff Riley

11th November 2016

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This is a short interview with the Nobel prize-winning economist Angus Deaton. His work is concerned with the factors that raise economic well-being and the extent to which these influences are under the control of government. Should a government target aggregate happiness? Is there a difference between happiness and life satisfaction?

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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