Here's another find, which also relates to your diary on "Quality of life":

A stone's throw from Jerome's office is the Grand  Arche de la Fraternity. Beautiful building, which has in the top several floors a tableau, a discussion on great issues of concern to Europe. It is changed, renewed every few years-
The first one I saw was on exclusion.

Exclusion from clean water
Exclusion from health care.
from education
from culture
from political freedom
--and on, and on.
It was an incredible display, with the finest maps in my experience outside government--maps of power distribution, water systems, rail transport, rainfall, evenness of income distribution,-- An information junky like me was simply in heaven.

In truth, it was about quality of life.

Approached not from an idealized list of desirable elements, but from a mapmaker's perspective of the best things already invented by the human race, and just who got their share of them -and who didn't.

Maps of mental illness, economic poverty, crime, capital punishment- all in the same graphical scale.
The astounding thing was that if you sort of mentally superimposed the maps properly, they told the same story that Layard tells, in his lectures. And more.

There have been many other tableaus there- dialogs, really- such as "The Talents and Consciences of Europe"-- A collection of Europe's great human assets.
They did a book by the same name with the best black and white portraiture I've yet seen in it.
Their choice of people was interesting.  

Useful talking follows experience, the more experience the better. Talking that precedes experience is known as bullshit.