The measurement of wellbeing is central to public policy. There are three uses for any measure: 1) monitoring progress; 2) informing policy design; and 3) policy appraisal. There has been increasing interest in the UK and around the world in using measures of subjective wellbeing (SWB) at each...

Contributors to this report on a recent CEP conferene include Sir Rodric Braithwaite, Sergei Vasiliev, Michael Emerson and Peter Boone. There is too much ill-informed and erroneous reporting of Russia and its companies.

Mental illness accounts for a massive share of the total burden of disease. Even when we include the burden of premature death mental illness accounts for 23% of the total burden of disease. Yet, despite the existence of cost-effective treatments, it receives only 13% of NHS health expenditure....