OECD-Universities Joint Conference July 2013 — France “Economics for a Better World” This will be the third international conference of economists interested in welfare economics and public policy broadly defined. This 3rd conference will follow those organised in Oxford (July 2009) and Paris (July 2011). The 2013 OECD-Universities Joint Conference will be informed by the work done over the past decade by economists, statisticians and social analysts to develop broad measures of well-being, and touch on some of the well-being dimensions included in recent OECD reports on the subject. The conference will feature research papers, panel discussions and plenary talks organised by researchers from a range of institutions in Europe, mainly.