Origins of Happiness

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If policymakers want to improve lives, it is important to understand how people feel - and why. This book charts new territory, providing the first map of the long-term drivers of people's happiness. Along the way, it highlights both familiar and more groundbreaking routes to progress. There are helpful signposts in here for all those seeking different and better paths to advance people's well-being.--Martine Durand, chief statistician and director of statistics of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development