derek bok, the former president of harvard, and and sissela bok. sissela bok's book comes out this fall, and as the title suggests, takes the long view. >> i felt it was so important to look at everything that's been done for millennia, really, in religion, and literature, in philosophy. and to bring that together with all the new research, and what's been done, really, in the last three decades with the social sciences and last 15 years in brain research to try to bring all those things together. >> brown: derek bok's book, "thhe politics of happiness: what government can learn from the new researchh of well-being". was published this spring. >> i'd always been interested in heapness research. i noticed the one thing that wasn't written about very much was what implication did this have for public policy. and since the great champion of happiness jeremy bentham that happiness should be the sole objective of government, it seemed natural to take that forward and say now that we know something about happiness, what are the results for public policy