Such aspirations are hardly confined to Great Britain. As the noted British economist Lord Richard Layard declared not long ago, “Happiness should become the goal of policy, and the progress of national happiness should be measured and analyzed as closely as the growth of GNP.” Works of self-help psychology line the shelves of the country’s bookstores, “happiness studies” thrives as an academic discipline, and politicians and policymakers - both Labour and Tory - are pushing to make happiness a central issue of statecraft. He was drawing attention to his country’s current, and apparently all-consuming, interest in happiness. “You can’t move in Britain for people trying to make you happy,” complained a British journalist recently in the pages of the Guardian.
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