Chapter 1 The Happiness Agenda: The Next 10 Years John F. Helliwell Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia Richard Layard Wellbeing Programme, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science Jeffrey D. Sachs University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University Our main thanks are to the philosophers over the centuries who have clarified the nature of a good life, to subjective well-being researchers over the past half century, to Jigme Thinley, who, as Bhutanese Prime Minister, championed the global study of Gross National Happiness and introduced the 2011 UN Resolution that led to the first World Happiness Report, and to the many invited chapter authors who have shared their expertise to make the World Happiness Reports a broader and deeper resource than we ever envisioned ten years ago. And, of course, our fellow editors Jan Emmanuel De Neve, Lara Aknin, and Shun Wang, who have done so much to improve and extend the content of World Happiness Reports they also provided, along with Heather Orpana, specific suggestions for this chapter.
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