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Misery and mental health

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  • Sarah Flèche
  • Richard Layard

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Mental illness is a far bigger source of human misery than poverty or unemployment, according to research by Sarah Flèche and Richard Layard. They argue that we need to move beyond a purely materialistic conception of misery - and call for increased public spending on mental health. Their study finds that dissatisfaction with life can have many causes - but mental illness is the most important. If people cannot enjoy life, they are just as deprived whether the cause is outside themselves or within.

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  • Sarah Flèche & Richard Layard, 2016. "Misery and mental health," CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance 466, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    • Handle: RePEc:cep:cepcnp:466
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    Keywords

    Mental health; life-satisfaction; wellbeing; poverty; unemployment; Community Wellbeing;
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    JEL classification:

    • I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
    • I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty

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