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November 15, 2010

Happiness Index

The government is proposing setting up a happiness index. This is not as easy as it sounds as Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill found. There is a useful article here on the philosophical implications of happiness that might be useful as an illustration in the exam.
Posted by John Mannion at 22:31
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