The background to the Wellbeing Budget started many years before when some of us started to look at how we could improve public policy or indeed economic policy-making.1 Reflecting on our efforts (in my case from 2011), a feature that characterised a lot of the work can be summed-up in one word: patience.
Patience to develop a new framework for policy-making, patience to allow it to be understood, tested, used and refined, and patience to wait for results. Patience isn’t the first characteristic that one thinks of in the world of economic policy-making.