Happiness, Wealth, and Sandra Bullock

I think it was Woody Allen who once quipped something to the effect of 'what's the use of happiness if it can't buy you money?!' Well, the relationship between wealth and happiness is now a respectable academic field of research and is a hot topic here at the LSE. But what does Sandra Bullock have to do with all of this? In a much emailed article today in the New York Times, columnist David Brooks writes a nice article that I thought summarised quite succinctly the collective wisdom to date emerging from this literature. How could these new approaches and insights be used to improve development policy?