Should government policy focus on our happiness rather than economic growth and incomes? Some economists think so, arguing that past a certain living standard, happiness does not increase one for one with incomes. But when happiness depends on highly personal factors such as relationships and religion, and when people can be perfectly happy on low incomes, do we really want it to be the measure of government policy? Speakers: Chair: Chris Giles Will Davies (Goldsmiths) Susan Harkness (University of Bath) Nattavudh Powdthavee (Warwick Business School) Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School)