Last month, I wrote about an article from The Economist on Richard Layard's new work on the political economy of happiness.The March issue of Prospect has a feature article by Layard on this issue - Happiness is back.
According to Layard, The desire to be happy is central to our nature. And, following the utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham, I want a society in which people are as happy as possible and in which each person's happiness counts equally. That should be the philosophy for our age, the guide for public policy and for individual action. And it should come to replace the intense individualism which has failed to make us happier.
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The authorities have decided to ban this Layard article since they conclude that it creates "happiness deficit": no one seems to be amused by it.
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