Richard Layard

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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]]