UCL Grand Challenge of Human Wellbeing

Wealth and Wellbeing

When: 5.30pm, 21st June 2010.
Where: Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre

Keynote Speaker: Professor Donald Winch, University of Sussex; author of Wealth and Life
UCL Speakers: Professor Doug Long (UCL Bentham Project), Professor Jonathan Wolff (UCL Philosophy)

Professor Winch and UCL discussants explored the extent to which wealth can or should constitute the cause and the measure of wellbeing.  This included consideration of how this debate has persisted from the beginnings of the British political economy – illustrating that it is both a key issue today and has arisen repeatedly in the past.