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== Richard Layard ==
== Richard Layard ==
''*Happiness: Has Social Science a Clue?''
**Lecture 1:
***"To understand how the economy actually affects our well-being, we have to use psychology as well as economics"
***"despite economic growth, happiness in the West has not grown in the last 50 years"
***focuses on the underlying happiness
***"In the standard economic model, private actions and exchanges get us to a Pareto optimum where no one could be happier without someone else being less happy"
***"The higher the real wage, the happier the population"
Important Graphs!
[http://cep.lse.ac.uk/events/lectures/layard/RL030303.pdf Richard Layard Lecture 1]
[http://cep.lse.ac.uk/events/lectures/layard/RL040303.pdf Richard Layard Lecture 2]
[http://cep.lse.ac.uk/events/lectures/layard/RL050303.pdf Richard Layard Lecture 3]





Revision as of 21:17, 13 November 2007

Economists that Focus on Happiness in Economics


Richard Layard

*Happiness: Has Social Science a Clue?

    • Lecture 1:
      • "To understand how the economy actually affects our well-being, we have to use psychology as well as economics"
      • "despite economic growth, happiness in the West has not grown in the last 50 years"
      • focuses on the underlying happiness
      • "In the standard economic model, private actions and exchanges get us to a Pareto optimum where no one could be happier without someone else being less happy"
      • "The higher the real wage, the happier the population"

Important Graphs! Richard Layard Lecture 1

Richard Layard Lecture 2

Richard Layard Lecture 3




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