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Paul Dolan is an internationally renowned expert on happiness, behaviour, and public policy. He is currently a Professor of Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics. He has been a visiting research scholar at Princeton University, where he worked closely with Daniel Kahneman. Among various other roles, he is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences Panel on measuring national well-being, a member of the National Wellbeing Advisory Forum for the Office for National Statistics in the UK, and is Chief Academic Advisor to the UK Government on how policymakers should value the impact of goods that are hard to measure, like health.

Books by Paul Dolan

Happy Ever After

What if the path to happiness meant abandoning our most dearly held beliefs?

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Happiness by Design

How to design your life for happiness - by thinking less and doing more

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Occupation vs happiness

In Happy Ever After Paul Dolan re-evaluates our measures of ‘success’.