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== Richard Layard == | |||
PICTURE | |||
<br>''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 00:59, 28 November 2007
Richard Layard
- Founder-director of the LSE Centre for Economic Performance
- focuses his writing on unemployment, inflation, inequality, education and post-Communist Reform
- 1997-2001-was a consultant to the Labour government
- 2005-published his book Happiness:Lessons from a New Science
- 1985-founded the Employment Institute
- 1980's-Chairman of the European Commission's Macroeconomic Policy Group
- Since 1964-member of the LSE staff
(information from http://cep.lse.ac.uk/layard/)
1st lecture:
[1]
2nd lecture: [2]
3rd lecture: [3]
These lectures were accessed through the London School of Economics and Political Science website, at http://www.lse.ac.uk/.
Richard Layard's bio from London School of Economics: [4]
Happiness studies main page: [[5]]
Richard Layard
PICTURE
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
