There is a rising tide of advocacy for public policy to be made on the basis of ‘subjective wellbeing’. In this paper, the authors argue that the vast majority of the associated policy proposals adopt the same ‘social planner perspective’ that undergirds conventional economic policy analysis.

The United Kingdom’s industrial policy since the 1970s has been characterised by frequent policy reversals and announcements, driven by political cycles. This paper explores the impacts of these deficiencies of the industrial policy-making landscape in the UK and contrasts them with the experiences of other advanced economies.

Quality Related (QR) funding from Research England provides an important source of support for research in English universities. This report identifies and explores the ways in which QR funding is used, its benefits, and how it complements other types of research income.

This paper applies a form of discrete choice experiment, applying it to the question of how public sector controllers of data could estimate the potential social value other users would gain from the data, and also help identify which attributes of the data have particular value to users.

There is presently a groundswell of enthusiasm and advocacy for 'wellbeing public policy', especially as part of the movement to go 'beyond GDP'. While recognising the merits of this proposal, this paper advocates for a cautious approach, owing to our poor theoretical understanding of both wellbeing and policy applications of it.