CEP News: Varsity: What?s the secret to a meaningful life? Chasing happiness

Varsity:
What?s the secret to a meaningful life? Chasing happiness

1 November 2019

Jacob Dabb sits down with Lord Richard Layard, who in the early 2000s successfully doubled NHS spending on talking therapy and expanded the provision of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy across the UK.
Given Layard's occupation - having written a number of landmark books on mental health and income (such as Happiness: lessons from a new science and Thrive: the power of psychological therapy), as well as co-writing the UN's annual World Happiness Report - his friendliness isn't surprising. This is an economist who helped double the NHS budget for talking-therapy and helped roll out Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) across the nation, and made mental well-being a priority for both the Blair and Brown New Labour governments.

Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, Richard Layard, Penguin, 2005. 2nd Edition 2011

Varsity:What?s the secret to a meaningful life? Chasing happiness

Varsity:
What?s the secret to a meaningful life? Chasing happiness