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Happiness:  text only  cep home page  about the cep  contact us  research   -happiness:   --press cuttings      and interviews.  publications  events & calendar  staff directory  support & services  news & visitors   Press Cuttings and Interviews Financial Times Winners and Losers in the Happiness Stakes (15 Mar 2005) The fascinating new book by Richard Layard, the British economist, argues that we should make happiness, not growth, the object of our economic policies. At first sight, there is not a lot of difference - the countries with the highest productivity are also the happiest. But on closer inspection, there are interesting differences. No Direct Link Eastern Daily Express So how happy are we really? (08 Mar 2005) The Government is planning to compile a 'Happiness Index' by 2010, but how do you measure happiness? According to Professor Richard Layard, LSE, we are no happier now than we were 50 years ago. No Link The Guardian Blair's Green antidote to beating the blues (08 Mar 2005) The Government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is planning to compile a wellbeing index, which includes a number of factors other than income (neighbourhood, mental health, access to green areas etc.) A book recently published by LSE professor Richard Layard argues that we are no happier now than 50 years ago. Link to article BBC Radio 4 The Today Programme (07 Mar 2005) Richard Layard, talking about his latest book, Happiness: Lessons on a new science. Link to programme The Guardian Life, Labour and the pursuit of happiness (07 Mar 2005) Happiness is all the rage. The year kicked off with a big conference in the United States on the subject, then Professor Richard Layard, LSE, published a book on it and now the government is getting into it. Professor Layard thinks happiness should become the biggest goal for the government. He suggests things such as compulsory parenting classes and lessons in emotional intelligence from the age of five onwards. Link to article Western Daily Press Make life smiles better instead of just making miserable money (05 Mar 2005) Review of 'Happiness: Lessons From A New Science', the book by LSE Professor Richard Layard in which he argues that, in spite of higher levels of income, we are no happier than we were 50 years ago. No Link The Financial Times Joy divisions (05 Mar 2005) Review of the book by leading economist Richard Layard, Happiness: Lessons on a new science on the relation between increasing wealth and decreasing happiness in the Western World. The article’s author interviewed Mr Layard in his LSE office. Link to article Independent on Sunday TV, MMR and others (27 Feb 05) Television makes people happier, not more violent. Reference to research by Richard Layard on happiness. Link to article Business Report, South Africa Why Manuel strives to improve gross domestic happiness (22 Feb 05) Reference to work by Richard Layard on happiness. Link to article Scotsman Happiness is no laughing matter (16 Feb 05) Richard Layard, LSE, in Happiness: lessons from a new science, calls for no less than a revolution at academic, governmental and individual levels, as well as greater altruism and compassion in society at large. 'Happiness should become the goal of policy, and the progress of national happiness should be measured and analysed as closely as the growth of GNP,' declares Layard. Link to article Washington Post, US Happy Yet? (15 Feb) Interview with Richard Layard, LSE, about his new book Happiness. Link to article Sunday Herald Smile ... why happiness is better than riches (14 Feb 05) In his new book Happiness, Richard Layard, who advised the Labour Party on unemployment issues from 1997 to 2001 and who is founder of the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE, urges the government to monitor our happiness as closely as it monitors gross domestic product. Only by doing this, he says, can the government produce sound economic and social policies which will make for a happy and healthy society. Link to article Brookings Briefing Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (09 Feb 05) A discussion between Richard Layard and Stanley Fischer (Vice Chairman, Citigroup), moderator Carol Graham (Senior Fellow and Co-Director, Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, Brookings) Link to website Washington Times Catering to least happy? (30 Jan 2005) A review by Roger Miller - What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? - Luke 9:25. Or, as Richard Layard puts it in secular, supranational terms in 'Happiness: Lessons From a New Science,' what good is it if Western societies get richer and richer but their populations become no happier? No Link Business Week Are the wealthy really happier? (28 Jan 05) In his book entitled Happiness, Lord Richard Layard, LSE, says economic growth can have negative consequences that may cancel out the gains. Link to article BBC News Online Why money doesn't buy happiness (27 Jan 05) If getting rich makes us happy, then why don't countries as a whole get happier as they grow wealthier? Lord Layard, professor at LSE and author of the book Happiness, quoted. Link to article Economist Can't buy it? (15 Jan 05) Review of Richard Layard's Happiness: lessons from a new science. Link to article The Financial Times Letters To The Editor: Consumption is no friend of happiness (08 Dec 2004) By Carolyn Hayman Anyone familiar with Richard Layard's excellent London School of Economics lectures on happiness will know that we hyperconsumers are being sold a false prospectus. Consumption does not lead to happiness, which rests on such mundane things as relationships, health and personal fulfilment. But unlike Mr Tomkins, I am not convinced that hyperconsumption will catch on. Link to article ** Subscription needed The Financial Times Struggle to keep up with the Joneses: (25 Oct 2004) Increasing complaints from high earners that they are finding it harder to make ends meet owe more to expectations than incomes, writes Scheherazade Daneshkhu Link to article ** Subscription needed The Daily Telegraph Notebook: Never have so many prawns died so pointlessly (08 Sep 2004) As it happens, in his new book on happiness, Richard Layard produces convincing evidence that happiness is a measurable phenomenon. The brain lights up; all people, in all societies, speaking all languages, seek the same thing. Link to article Newsweek Behind the Smile (26 Jul 2004) Can poor people be more self-satisfied than the rich? New clues to an old mystery. Link to article The Guardian A hedonist's charter (09 Apr 2004) Money does not bring contentment. So how do you forge a politics where happiness is the priority? Link to article The Sydney Morning Herald If we must work longer, make it more satisfying (10 Mar 04) The economists have pushed productivity to the point where it's made work less satisfying, writes Ross Gittins. Link to article BBC Online The pursuit of happiness (with or without kids) (14 Nov 2003) Convention tells us the route to happiness is having children. So does the declining birth rate mean we are more miserable these days? Not according to a new report, which finds there is plenty of happiness in staying childless. Link to article BBC4: The Talk Show Money and Happiness (07 Apr 03) Jonathan Freedland is joined by Professor Richard Layard, co-director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, who addressed the subject of happiness and economics in his 2003 Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures Link to website The Observer In pursuit of true happiness (09 Mar 2003) Will Hutton - Money might make the world go round, but earning it is making us increasingly miserable. Link to article The Guardian Money and happiness (7 Mar 2003) Polly Toynbee - The evidence is clear: our wellbeing depends on cooperation and the public good, not personal enrichment Link to article The Guardian The case for happiness (6 Mar 2003) Leader - Lord Layard sets new policy priorities Link to article

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