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“My work on happiness is the only thing I've ever done where I've heard people in the supermarket talking about it, for instance.”

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I don't think income solely determines health. I think lots of other things determine health.

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Many people have mixed views about unions, but unions used to give people some measure of control at work. They gave them a social…

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I've always - and not always happily - considered myself an outsider. Certainly at Fettes. And then the Scots are always outsiders in England.…

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People who have children, by and large, want children. People who don't want children are people who, by and large, don't want to have…

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The first thing we need to understand when we think about globalization is that it has benefited an enormous number of people who are…

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High quality, open, transparent, and uncensored data are needed to support democracy.

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Success breeds inequality, and you don't want to choke off success.

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“It can be bad if the winners try to stop others from following them, pulling up the ladders behind them.”

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A good theoretical account must explain all of the evidence that we see. If it doesn't work everywhere, we have no idea what we…

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Growth does not bring any 'automatic' improvement in the health component of wellbeing.

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In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.

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