PPE Panel: Measuring Happiness and Well-Being

This will be a public event exploring the questions raised by attempts both to measure happiness and well-being and to use such measures in thinking about public policy. Pizza will be served.

Invited speakers:

Matthew Adler, Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Philosophy and Public Policy, at Duke University. He is the author of Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis, The Rule of Recognition and the U.S. Constitution, New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Cost-Benefit Analysis: Legal, Economic, and Philosophical Perspectives, and he is co-editing the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy.

Dan Ariely, James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University.  He is the author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape our Decisions, The Upside of Irrationality, and The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves.

Paul Dolan, Professor of Behavioral Science at the London School of Economics.  He has written extensively on subjective well-being, preferences, and public policy.

Carol Graham. Senior Fellow and Charles Robinson Chair at the Brookings Institution and College Park Professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. She is the author of The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being and Happiness Around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires