JOANNE MYERS: Welcome to this podcast, which is coming to you from the Carnegie Council in New York City. I'm Joanne Myers, director of Public Affairs programs here at the Council. Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Richard Layard. Lord Richard is a director of the Wellbeing Program at the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics (LSE) and a member of Parliament. He is best known for his contributions to happiness economics. Accordingly, his book Happiness: Lessons from a New Science redefines the simplistic economic link between income and happiness. He is also the co-founder of the Action for Happiness Movement, now counting over 30,000 members. In both 2012 and 2013, Professor Layard co-edited the United Nations World Happiness reports. He is also a contributor to an interesting new book entitled The Origins of Happiness: The Science of Well-Being Over the Life Course. Sir Richard, thank you for joining us.

Related publications

World Happiness Report 2018, John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey D. Sachs (Eds), March 2018

https://s3.amazonaws.com/happiness-report/2018/WHR_web.pdf

The Origins of Happiness by Andrew Clark, Sarah Flèche, Richard Layard, Natavudh Powdthavee and George Ward is published by Princeton University Press, January 2018

Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, Richard Layard, Penguin, 2^nd edition, 2011

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/54928/happiness/

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