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A well-trained workforce is essential to the economy, but a shortage of alternatives to university means Britain's young people are falling behind. Lord Richard Layard talks about a fundamental injustice in Britain's edu... Read more...
20 August 2024
The World Happiness Report 2024 reveals that those in the UK feel they have a greater sense of freedom than Germans and believe there is less corruption in the country. When looking at age demographics, the largest gap b... Read more...
20 March 2024
The 2024 World Happiness Report found that lack of education, training and housing is behind loss of gen Z's traditionally positive outlook. Richard Layard, one of the report's authors, is clear that more effort is... Read more...
Economists from the LSE Centre for Economic Performance found that the UK’s departure from the EU caused a 6 per cent increase in British food prices. ... Read more...
20 July 2022
Swati Dhingra has been appointed to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) by chancellor Rishi Sunak. The MPC is responsible for deciding what monetary policy action the Bank of England will take to... Read more...
12 May 2022
Researchers from the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance find that a “clear and robust impact of Brexit-induced trade frictions” had led to an increase in prices. ... Read more...
27 April 2022
All humans want a little of the good life, but Paul Dolan asks whether the sole pursuit of happiness is actually making us a society of sad, selfish and solitary creatures? ... Read more...
24 March 2022
Experts say social support, honesty and generosity key to wellbeing, as Afghanistan and Lebanon struggle in global ranking. ... Read more...
19 March 2022
Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, associate of CEP and the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID), on being awarded the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea. The award is given to a European scholar who has ... Read more...
15 February 2022
Following the publication of the World Happiness report 2021, Rodger Dean Duncan interviews Richard Layard on happiness and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic. ... Read more...
01 June 2021
In order to tackle this, we must first accept that a well-being budget is not an 'either-or' proposition. It need not be a substitute for conventional economics, but rather, as a project that will help us develop tools a... Read more...
01 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 occupa... Read more...
Lord Richard Layard, one of Britain's most prominent economists and the author of several books on happiness, also believes that to make ourselves happy we should focus on the well-being of others. "A society cannot flo... Read more...
24 September 2019
Remember, for example, the pioneering work of Richard Layard of the London School of Economics, Happiness. Lessons of a new science (2005), which explored the links between social sciences, moral philosophy and people... Read more...
One of the main references of this school is Richard Layard, of the London School of Economics. In his work - among which Happiness stands out. Lessons from a new science (Taurus, 2005) - is convinced that happiness is p... Read more...
Jo Swinson speaking at the Lib Dem conference. "Two brilliant questions and to take the first one about talking therapy, you say it is expensive. I get there are upfront costs but there is also excellent research. Richa... Read more...
19 September 2019
Her government will instead put an emphasis on goals like community and cultural connection and equity in well-being across generations in what has been described as a "game-changing event" by LSE professor Richard Layar... Read more...
17 September 2019
The national survey on happiness index is a late development, because social economists have found that although the economies of various countries will grow more or less, the happiness of the people has not continued to... Read more...
08 September 2019
Research published by the London School of Economics estimated that the spike in inflation that followed the 2016 referendum was costing the average household £7.74 a week - a figure equivalent to £404 a year... Read more...
03 September 2019
LONDON (MNI) - The Bank of England risks substantially underestimating the upward inflationary pressure from sterling's depreciation due its practice of using trade weights to assess the impact of currency movements, a s... Read more...
30 August 2019
What is the mechanism of the impact of the size of a native city on an individual's adult income? A general "level solidification" is obviously not fully explained. Therefore, the two authors of the above study, French e... Read more...
20 August 2019
To help John and the journalist, we asked our World Wellbeing Panel to comment on the wellbeing arising from luxury goods. With aspirations of one day owning that Lamborghini, we expected our panel of economists to agree... Read more...
07 August 2019
The research by Nick Powdthavee, of Warwick Business School, Anke Plagnol, of City University London, Andrew Clark, of Paris School of Economics, and Paul Frijters, of the London School of Economics, also found that repo... Read more...
01 August 2019
That's the question at the heart of a new study published in the Journal of Urban Economics. In the study, economists Cleement Bosquet of the University of Cergy-Pontoise in France and Henry G. Overman of the London Scho... Read more...
30 July 2019
"But all UK households lose from a depreciation that pushes up the cost of imported goods, raising prices in the shops and eroding the real value of their earnings and savings. Research published by the London School of ... Read more...
Lord Richard Layard, a professor at the London School of Economics, has been a pioneer in this area, and believes the government should prioritise policies that boost happiness over growth. His research has gone on to in... Read more...
25 July 2019
Beyond the fact that each one of us has to look for a concordance between the vocation and the labor field, employers can do a lot to achieve this goal. According to Lord Richard Layard, the elements that integrate work ... Read more...
24 July 2019
To explain clearly why there are two powerful reports of global happiness this year: the World Happiness Report 2019, edited by John F. Helliwell (University of British Columbia), Richard Layard (London School of Economi... Read more...
23 July 2019
This week's guest blog comes from Christian Krekel, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, working with George Ward from MIT Sloan and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve from Oxford Unive... Read more...
17 July 2019
However, at this point in time, even some economists want a change in focus. For example, Professor Lord Richard Layard, from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, recently proposed that ... Read more...
16 July 2019
A recent study set out to explore how effective apprenticeships were at supporting students as they both learn new skills and make their way into the workplace. The researchers assess young people who completed their GCS... Read more...
12 July 2019
Described as a "game-changing event" by London School of Economics Dr. Richard Layard, New Zealand's budget has set a new standard for progressive policy "no other major country that has so explicitly adopted well-being ... Read more...
11 July 2019
It has become increasingly evident that disparity is linked to life dissatisfaction as discussed in the book The Origins of Happiness by Andrew E Clark, Sarah Fleche, Richard Layard, Nattavudh Pawdthavee, and George Ward... Read more...
10 July 2019
Snippet: ...'s virtually impossible However good the advice they get is are trying to understand the make your way through that is extremely hard and Professor Sandra McNally runs the centre for vocational education rese... Read more...
08 July 2019
According to LSE research (from the Centre for Vocational Educational Research) apprentices are earning 20% more than the people who take the full-time college route, Lord Layard said in his contribution to the debate ar... Read more...
04 July 2019
The preeminent happiness researcher shares some surprising results on connecting well-being, mental health, and how employers can play a role in improving our lives at work. ... Read more...
01 July 2019
In this latest blog post, Steven McIntosh of University of Sheffield discusses CVER contributions to the recent Augar Review of Post-18 Education, and the findings that came out of that research. Individual Consequences... Read more...
25 June 2019
"The striking fact is that over time, people simply do not adapt to being unemployed," says Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, an associate professor of economics and strategy at Oxford University and associate editor of th... Read more...
17 June 2019
Are you celebrating your 23rd birthday soon or are you already 23? Congratulations! Because this age is one of the happiest years in life. This is what a survey at the Center for Economic Performance of the London School... Read more...
16 June 2019
The author of a new paper examining satisfaction with home ownership said the pleasure many buyers take in their increasingly big houses is often undermined by envy. "If I bought a house to feel like 'I'm the king of th... Read more...
13 June 2019
Although the median size for a newly-built single-family house has increased from 1,500 square feet in 1973 to more than 2,400 square feet in 2017 according to Census Bureau data, Americans aren't happier with their big ... Read more...
12 June 2019
But according to a recent paper, Americans aren't getting any happier with their ever bigger homes. "Despite a major upscaling of single-family houses since 1980," writes Clement Bellet, a postdoctoral fellow at the Euro... Read more...
11 June 2019
In the latest Happiness Report, authors John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey D. Sachs highlight the fact that links between government and happiness operate both ways, i.e., what governments do affects happiness... Read more...
In the words of Professor Richard Layard, an expert on life satisfaction across populations, of the London School of Economics, 'this budget is a game-changing event.' Moreover, he indicated that there is 'no other major... Read more...
02 June 2019
These questions have confronted utilitarians, the most influential of whom was the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, from the beginning. But some modern-day utilitarians, foremost among them Richard Layard of the London School... Read more...
31 May 2019
The paper, from the all-party parliamentary group on wellbeing economics, written by O'Donnell and other leading MPs and peers, calls on the government to use the spending review to boost its funding for mental health se... Read more...
24 May 2019
The report, which is launched today, comes from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Wellbeing Economics. The authors include Lord Gus O'Donnell (the former Cabinet Secretary), Chris Ruane MP (chair), Lord Richard Layard... Read more...
Sachs makes his provocative claim as part of the 2019 World Happiness Report, an annual summary of how the world is feeling about life, which he oversees alongside University of British Columbia economist John Helliwell ... Read more...
23 May 2019
"This budget is a game-changing event," said Richard Layard, a professor at the London School of Economics who is an expert on life satisfaction across populations. New Zealand is not the only country that is starting t... Read more...
22 May 2019
However, pay varies among different sectors, which contributes to an earnings gap between men and women, write Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura. ... Read more...
21 May 2019
One of the country's top experts on the condition, Richard Layard in his important work, called the Depression Report, recommended training an extra 10,000 clinical psychologists and therapists to provide cognitive behav... Read more...
16 May 2019
An excellent example, proposed by Canova himself, summarizing the complexity of a concept like happiness is the World Happiness Report, a United Nations project to empirically define the concept of happiness. It makes u... Read more...
10 May 2019
Since the referendum, self-reported British subjective wellbeing has stagnated, finds a study led by Georgios Kavetsos of Queen Mary University of London. Pro-Europeans are predictably upset, but even anti-Europeans saw ... Read more...
09 May 2019
This week's blog is from Christian Krekel, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics. In this blog, Christian outlines the wellbeing benefits of hosting the 2012 Lo... Read more...
08 May 2019
SM: Happiness has become a metric - "a set of values," as you say - with transnational currency. It now enjoys the imprimatur of political science and sociological research. When did that happen? FG: The exhibition has ... Read more...
07 May 2019
A decade ago, one in six people had depression or chronic anxiety, but only a quarter of them were receiving treatment - mostly drugs. The government's then happiness tsar, the economist Richard Layard, suggested that co... Read more...
15 April 2019
Researchers at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance found that the "subjective well-being," or happiness, of Britons has declined since the 2016 referendum regardless of a person's position on ... Read more...
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13 April 2019
12 April 2019
And the mood of the British is deeply affected. "The level of post-referendum satisfaction has deteriorated significantly in the UK compared to other EU countries," Georgios Kavetsos, a professor of behavioral science at... Read more...
01 April 2019
Most strikingly, Rosling must have worked hard to ignore the data on mental health, given that the global leading cause of ill health today is depression. According to new estimates by Sarah Fleche and Richard Layard of ... Read more...
27 March 2019
I write this column not to discredit the UN report, which is directed by three well known economists, John Helliwell, Richard Layard, and Jeffrey Sachs. As a matter of fact, Table 2.1 in the report suggests there is cons... Read more...
26 March 2019
Researcher Prof Richard Layard, from the London School of Economics, said: "If governments want to stay in power they should take the happiness of the people more seriously than economic measures."... Read more...
22 March 2019
The lesson for cities? If you want to solve poverty and marginalization, the smartest approach is to get the experts - the poor and marginalized - to help with solutions. But more broadly, as happiness economist Jan-Emma... Read more...
"We were standing at his desk in his office when I broached the idea of a global happiness report, and I would attribute the idea to Thinley's leadership and the compelling scientific findings of Professors Helliwell and... Read more...
21 March 2019
Snippet: ...ince 1975.Average earnings increased by 3.4 per cent in the year to January, down by 0.1 per cent on the previous month but still outpacing inflation. However, one of the report's authors, Professor Richard L... Read more...
Snippet: ...core of 2.85 was South Sudan. The Central African Republic and Afghanistan were just above it. The annual happiness report was commissioned by the United Nations in 2012 and co-founded by Lord Layard, a profe... Read more...
Across the world people's evaluations of their happiness dropped to levels that were last seen after the financial crisis of 2008-09, having briefly risen in its aftermath but then fallen steadily. Levels of happiness in... Read more...
Snippet: ...e happy than the Germans French Italians just above the Irish last talks one of the world's big happiness experts economist Professor Richard Layard pregnant programme director of the centre for economic perf... Read more...
20 March 2019
The UN instituted in 2012 the International Day of Happiness. Even a stream of economists flourishes like Richard Layard who have proposed to replace a parameter as questioned as GDP by happiness indices. Indexes that Fi... Read more...
Professor Richard Layard, from the London School of Economics, one of the authors of the World Happiness Report and co-founder of UK charity Action For Happiness, said: "If governments want to stay in power they should t... Read more...
The idea that policymakers should aim for something beyond GDP is far from new, but it has regained prominence in recent years. A growing contingent of governments and international organisations are beginning to focus t... Read more...
This chapter provides a general review and discussion of the debate surrounding Big Data and wellbeing. We ask four main questions: Is Big Data very new or very old? How well can we now predict individual and aggregate w... Read more...
The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. This year's World Happiness Report focuses on happiness and... Read more...
09 March 2019
Just as with GDP, it is only when we move to the specifics that gross national happiness becomes useful. Richard Layard, a leading happiness researcher, argues mental illness is a leading cause of misery, and it can be t... Read more...
04 March 2019
01 March 2019
From Thorstein Veblen to Richard Layard, to Richard Easterlin and others, several economists have spent the last century trying to ... [paywall] Happiness: Lessons from a new science, Richard Layard, Penguin 2011 IS... Read more...
27 February 2019
Sir Richard Layard, "happiness tsar" under New Labour, diagnosed us, as a nation, as suffering from lack of trust and excessive concern with status, materialism, envy and winning the rat race. Happiness: Lessons from a ... Read more...
15 February 2019
By Gigi Foster, Paul Fritjers After three years and 35 polls, the Economic Society of Australia has received its first-ever unanimous response to a survey question. ... Read more...
13 February 2019
Snippet: ... of you. Science says so! Think you have already reached your peak in life? You might want to think again. We want to share some good news with you: Your happiest years are still ahead! According to research... Read more...
25 January 2019
The Briton Richard Layard is a well-known economist. Now he sits in the upper house and is dedicated to the question of what really makes people happy. It is not money, that much is clear. "The price of happiness: less... Read more...
01 January 2019
Snippet: "The price of happiness" is precisely the French title of another bestseller, this time signed by the English economist Sir Richard Layard published in 2007. "The price of happiness: lessons from a new scie... Read more...
14 December 2018
Discussion of LSE research (Healthy Minds Project) urging the government to incorporate life skills into the national curriculum. Reported widely on local BBC radio stations. ... Read more...
30 November 2018
The Centre of Economic Performance at London School of Economics surveyed around 23,000 adults aged between 17 to 85 years. They were asked questions related to their life satisfaction, how they predict their happiness l... Read more...
23 November 2018
What could go wrong? Many of the objections to happiness economics are well rehearsed. The authors (especially Richard Layard, who has spent the past decade reviving this neo-Benthamite idea), have heard them all and hav... Read more...
20 November 2018
Yet a new study from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), at the London School of Economics (LSE), suggests that the capital is £4.5 billion a year better off because of the raids. Dr Hans Koste... Read more...
06 August 2018
By Maria Molina-Domene Why do small establishments pay employees less than large establishments? The final pieces of this puzzle have not been found yet. This paper suggests the joint role of the division o... Read more...
27 July 2018
A study conducted by researchers at Princeton University showed that a higher income increased the level of happiness, but only up to a salary of about $ 75,000 (or just under $ 70,000) a year. And after? Afte... Read more...
30 May 2018
Richard Layard, a follower of a welfarist and hedonistic approach, shows that the level of happiness felt is relative (the perception that I have of my own income depends on the income of others), adaptive (th... Read more...
29 May 2018
Silicon Valley and the City of London should give up some of their massive gains from globalization to ensure workers in cities like Detroit and Hull do not continue to fall behind. But… &ldqu... Read more...
THE LUDICROUS customs partnership arrangement preferred by Remainers as a solution to the Ireland border post-Brexit has been torn apart by a London based think thank who have argued the plan is almo... Read more...
27 May 2018
Letter from Richard Layard, Director, Wellbeing Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science: “We now have the knowledge to implement that approach. Much of it is found in the annual... Read more...
19 May 2018
Lord Richard Layard discusses the relation between happiness and mental health - can your financial status determine your happiness? The interview explores the battle to get money from the Government for child... Read more...
18 May 2018
3. Think that money gives happiness, but not always. The economist Richard Layard argued in his book Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, that a person should charge at least 20,000 gross euros a year to fee... Read more...
Economists Jeffrey Sachs, John Helliwell and Richard Layard pointed out several factors that affect the well-being of citizens, including GDP per capita, life expectancy, corruption and social support. However... Read more...
16 May 2018
In his latest work ‘The Origin of Happiness’, British economist Richard Layard notes how relationships play a critical role. Globally, as incomes have risen, happiness has not. This is because of b... Read more...
15 May 2018
Finland, a perennial chart-topper on global rankings of well-being and prosperity, has just been named the world’s happiest country in the World Happiness Report. Finns are not happy about the news. &hel... Read more...
14 May 2018
Katy is a musician and a Young Ambassador for the UK’s leading eating disorder charity, Beat. During the interview Professor Layard discussed his primary research focus on happiness and mental health (an... Read more...
13 May 2018
…the key to happiness apparently really is holding down a stable job according to experts. All the economic indicators say high employment rate is most likely to correlate with greater happiness. ... Read more...
Respondents weren’t asked why they rated themselves as they did. But the three economists who edited the report—Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University in the US, John F. Helliwell of the Canadian Ins... Read more...
12 May 2018
The record-breaking bank holiday heatwave was perfectly timed to boost Britain’s economy after a decidedly cool start to the year, experts said yesterday. Economists suggested that the hot spell wa... Read more...
09 May 2018
The Economist's Soumaya Keynes continues her quest to find out why the study of economics is so dominated by men. Does that affect the kind of economics we get, and why does that matter? In her second prog... Read more...
08 May 2018
The annual American Economic Journal (AEJ) Best Paper Award highlights the best paper published in each of the American Economic Journals: Applied Economics, Economic Policy, Macroeconomics, and Microeconomics... Read more...
07 May 2018
Not all economists and psychologists agree. Economists Paul Frijters and Tony Beatton factored in the possibility that those who become happier in the studies are the same people who are more content when they... Read more...
05 May 2018
The 2017 United Nations World Happiness Report shows U.S. happiness at its lowest point since 2006 according to Forbes magazine, ranking 14th in the world. Columbia University economist Jeffery Sachs authored ... Read more...
04 May 2018
To live happily, it is better to love the long snowy winters. This is confirmed by the latest World Happiness Report, written at the request of the United Nations by economists John Helliwell, Richard Layard a... Read more...
30 April 2018
Quoting the sage advice of British economist Richard Layard, Rauch advises, “One secret of happiness is to ignore comparisons with people who are more successful than you are.” ... Read more...
27 April 2018
Good mental health and having a partner make people happier than doubling their income, a new study has found. The research by the London School of Economics looked at responses from 200,000 people o... Read more...
24 April 2018
The World Happiness Report has been published every year since 2012, giving countries important data about the well-being of their people and how it compares to other nations’. One of the prima... Read more...
20 April 2018
When the LSE economist Richard Layard wrote a book on happiness research and its policy areas in 2005, he gained strong reactions, especially from the right side. Some of the criticisms were justified: Uncriti... Read more...
18 April 2018
7. Focus on Thursday: Even if you’re no longer working Monday to Friday, that weekend feeling still affects you. But, surprisingly, it’s not in fact Friday that boosts people’s moods th... Read more...
17 April 2018
According to the authors of the report, John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey D. Sachs, there is a characteristic of Latin Americans that makes them different. "Unusually happy." Th... Read more...
15 April 2018
Bhutan refers to gross national happiness; in Switzerland, 25 complementary indicators to GDP have been selected. The "economists of happiness" (such as Richard Layard of the London School of Economi... Read more...
11 April 2018
A team of researchers at London's Centre for Economic Performance employed 800 volunteers to analyse athletes' faces as they stood on the medal podiums during the London Games, in order to assess their... Read more...
10 April 2018
Today for the first time, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is to recognise its global centres of excellence with official ESRC Research Institute status. The move acknowledg... Read more...
09 April 2018
Disruption to trade caused by Brexit could cost the average Briton as much as £1,700 a year, with Remain-backing areas bearing the brunt, a report has claimed. The research suggested many of the worst-af... Read more...
27 March 2018
This study is an initiative of the Network of Solutions for Sustainable Development of the United Nations. The research was conducted by John Helliwell, researcher and professor at the Vancouver School of Econ... Read more...
26 March 2018
The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network has published a World Happiness Report annually since 2012. This year’s report has been widely reported, because Taiwan is ranked as the 26th-happiest nat... Read more...
Couple of days back, ‘Economic Times’ carried interview of renowned British economist Richard Layard. Also known as the “happiness tsar” for his extensive research on happiness, Layard ... Read more...
In this year’s annual ranking of the happiest countries in the world, Israel placed an enviable 11th. According to the ranking’s sponsor, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Networ... Read more...
24 March 2018
The United Nations "sustainable development solutions" have been published every year since 2012. Each year, the "World Happiness Report" rankings are announced. The 2018 ranking announced ... Read more...
21 March 2018
The report, produced by the United Nations SDSN network and the Ernesto Illy Foundation, is edited by prof. John F. Helliwell (University of British Columbia and Canadian Advanced Research Institute), by prof.... Read more...
20 March 2018
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 pleasur... Read more...
19 March 2018
Meanwhile, ever-more think tank-like units are rolling out of universities—such as the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance and the UK in a Changing Europe, which is co-ordinated through King&rsqu... Read more...
Book of the month: We all know the adage that money doesn’t bring you happiness – but if not money, then what? That’s the question being asked in The Origins of Happiness: The Science o... Read more...
Miami – World Happiness Summit 2018 welcomed peope from over 35 countries and 43 US states to the campus of the University of Miami yesterday….The three-day event opened with lakeside yoga at dawn... Read more...
17 March 2018
The UN’s 2018 Happiness Report shows that Israel is the eleventh-happiest country in the world, surpassing the United States and the UK. Related publications World Happiness Report 2018, John F. He... Read more...
16 March 2018
The World Happiness Report 2018, ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels, and 117 countries by the happiness of their immigrants. This year, Singapore is ranked 34th, a drop from 2017's ranking of 26... Read more...
African nations overall don’t rank well in the new World Happiness Report, but there are a few surprises – and, of course, it likely depends on how happiness is defined. Also in: Th... Read more...
15 March 2018
Happy are the people of the Nordic nations — happier, in fact, than anyone else in the world. And the overall happiness of a country is almost identical to the happiness of its immigrants. Those are the ... Read more...
14 March 2018
In this blog, Josh De Lyon (LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance) discusses some of the concerns with the economic forecasts of the effects of Brexit and suggests that the available reports are inf... Read more...
13 March 2018
The philosophy of BISP recognises that a core purpose of formal education is to enable our students to lead “quality lives”. In that context, it is worth reflecting on research quoted in the World ... Read more...
11 March 2018
Article by Jeffrey Sachs The Global Happiness Council, which I am honoured to direct on behalf of the United Arab Emirates, has just issued the first Global Happiness Policy Report (GHPR) as a companion vol... Read more...
05 March 2018
As March 2019 draws closer, the UK government remains divided over the type of trade relationship it wants to achieve in the ongoing negotiations with the EU. Paola Conconi (ULB/LSE) explains why Japanese... Read more...
28 February 2018
The survey was made by Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren, London School of Economics and the Institute of Business Research. Teachers in independent primary schools, and especially in company-owned independent school... Read more...
“Money can’t buy me love,” sang The Beatles, although it is doubtful that this was a rigorous empirical claim. Still, nobody disputes that there’s more to life than money and a new book... Read more...
23 February 2018
Lord Richard Layard, program director of the Center for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics and co-editor of the World Happiness Report, Mo Gawdat and Gopi Kallayil, Google executives, Allis... Read more...
Dominique Steiler, professor of management, proposes in a tribune to the "World" to break with the paradigm of the hyper-competitiveness and the economic war to make the company a factor of individua... Read more...
14 February 2018
DUBAI: Professor Jeffrey Sachs, renowned economist and Chair of the World Happiness Council, has led a plenary session to discuss the findings of the first Global Happiness Policy Report on the opening day of ... Read more...
13 February 2018
In a similar session titled ‘What Makes People Happy?’, Paul Dolan, Head of Department and Professor of Behavioral Science in Psychological and Behavioral Science at the London School of Economics ... Read more...
11 February 2018
Research led by Richard Layard and published in a book, The Origins of Happiness, this month reveals that even ill health, a drop in income or being divorced or widowed makes relatively little difference to th... Read more...
10 February 2018
Findings suggest that a mother’s personality has a big impact on the academic performance of teenagers, regardless of other factors. Academics assessed women’s “internal locus of control&rdqu... Read more...
08 February 2018
Related publications Locus of Control and its Intergenerational Implications for Early Childhood Skill Formation (pages 298-329) The Economic Journal Volume 128, Issue 608, February 2018 Warn N. Lekf... Read more...
05 February 2018
Many long-term studies of well-being show that people actually get happier as they age. (This lends credence, Setiya suggests, to Aristotle’s view that we grow into a “prime of life,” w... Read more...
03 February 2018
Snippet: ...ard to the next one. So do I. is more important than Happiness at school and should even be factored academic qualifications - into the curriculum. That's the conclusion of a major report by Lo... Read more...
01 February 2018
Snippet: ...ic King BBC Radio isn't this statement happiness score is more important than ECB academic qualifications and could even be factored into the cricket them the conclusion of a major report by Lo... Read more...
…7 23 is a town which is just a month ago happiness school is more important than academic qualifications should even be factored into the correctly That's the conclusion of a major report by Lord R... Read more...
Richard Layard, an elected economist and professor at the London School of Economics, emphasized in his lecture (March 3, 2003) that the people of the Western countries have been very wealthy over the last thi... Read more...
A new book by Professor Richard Layard and colleagues presents evidence on the origins of happiness, drawing on unique survey data on over 100,000 individuals in Australia, Germany, the UK and the United State... Read more...
"Money can not buy me love" (with money I can not buy love) the Beatles sang, although it is doubtful that it was a rigorous empirical affirmation. Still, no one denies that money is not everything i... Read more...
30 January 2018
On Monday 22nd January, I got to meet a #wellbeing hero of mine, Lord Richard Layard. Layard has been at the forefront of the wellbeing movement in the UK, forcing it onto the agenda of governments past and pr... Read more...
28 January 2018
Thus said Professor Richard Layard, the leader of the research, as quoted from kompas.com. "In the past, the country has managed to overcome the problem of poverty, unemployment, education, and physical h... Read more...
26 January 2018
... it is easy to sympathise with Thomas Jefferson’s remark, shortly after he stepped down as US president, that “The care of human life & happiness, & not their destruction, is the first &... Read more...
A third problem with GDP is that it doesn’t tell us anything about whether or not people are satisfied with their lives. Nobel Prize-winners Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen have long argued that we shoul... Read more...
25 January 2018
The prospect of this book did make me happy. The idea that a group of well-respected, eminent economists would be making the case that government should focus its efforts on increasing the happiness ... Read more...
22 January 2018
Schools and individual teachers have a huge effect on the happiness of their children. Indeed, the school that children attend affects their happiness nearly as much as it affects their academic performance. W... Read more...
In his new book 'The Origins of Happiness', Richard Layard argues that the biggest predictor of happiness is not any economic factor, but rather mental health. Based on this, Layard prop... Read more...
21 January 2018
Lord (Richard) Layard, the economist, hosted a dinner at the London School of Economics last week to celebrate the publication of a new book by him and his colleagues, called The Origins of Happiness. It is de... Read more...
Swati Dhingra and John Morrow discuss Efficiency in Large markets with Firm Heterogeneity. ABSTRACT: Empirical work has drawn attention to the high degree of productivity differences within industries, an... Read more...
18 January 2018
Article by Nattavudh Powdthavee According to Richard Layard, Professor of economics and director of the Wellbeing programme at the London School of Economics, happiness is simply “feeling good –... Read more...
14 January 2018
Glenys Thornton @GlenysThornton RT @kemonas13: @actionhappiness @LSEnews @LSEpublicevents @CEP_LSE @RichardLayard @AndrewMarr9 @johnvanreenen @AnthonySeldon… ... Read more...
03 January 2018
This was about where things stood 30 years ago, when Richard Layard, a British economist now ennobled as Baron Layard of Highgate, began promoting a radical doctrine. Maybe, he posited, the time had come to ta... Read more...
01 January 2018
'The Origins of Happiness' by by Andrew E. Clark, Sarah Flèche, Richard Layard, Nattavudh Powdthavee, and George Ward (Jan. 16) The authors behind "The Origins of Hap... Read more...
31 December 2017
Paul Dolan teaches at the London School of Economics and was a visiting scholar at Princeton, where he worked with Daniel Kahneman. He explains the importance of attention in his book, Happiness by Design: Cha... Read more...
It is paradoxical that despite being richer every day we can not use that wealth in a way that makes us happier, because working more for less makes us unhappy, and what would make us happier would be to work ... Read more...
29 December 2017
Moreover, despite the birth of a true sub-discipline of economics - the economy of happiness - it will still take more than 40 years between the publication of the great article founder Richard A. Easterlin (&... Read more...
20 December 2017
Moreover, despite the birth of a true sub-discipline of economics - the economy of happiness - it will still take more than 40 years between the publication of the great article founder Richard A. Easterlin ( ... Read more...
19 December 2017
Money does not give happiness, but it does help. The economist Richard Layard maintains in his book Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, that a person must collect, at least, 20,000 gross euros a year to fee... Read more...
"The results of this study make clear the incredible potential and capacity of both the brain and the AI technology." Artificial Intelligence replicates the process of unconscious decision-making, wh... Read more...
07 December 2017
Richard Layard and his co-workers wanted to know how much money the British government has to allocate to reduce mental illness, physical ill health, unemployment and poverty. They concluded that the cheapest ... Read more...
26 November 2017
According to the Center for Economic Performance Research Center (CEP), one of the main consequences of the vote on leaving the European Union was a marked decrease in the quality of life of British subjects. ... Read more...
24 November 2017
In 2005, another Richard, the delicious British baron Layard, explained that "when a country has more than $ 15,000 per capita, its level of happiness seems independent of its per capita income. What is t... Read more...
23 November 2017
Richard Layard on the book that changed his life and the quote that gives him strength Article by Richard Layard TG: Share a quote that you love and that gives you strength or peace. RL: "Lasting... Read more...
22 November 2017
Wales and Northern Ireland have suffered the worst spikes in inflation in the UK as a result of last year’s vote for Brexit, according to new research from the London School of Economics. The analysis by... Read more...
20 November 2017
PRINCETON – If we can prevent great suffering at no cost to ourselves, we ought to do so. That principle is widely accepted and difficult to dispute. Yet Western governments are neglecting an opportunity... Read more...
15 November 2017
Work-life balance, job variety, autonomy and learning new things make us happier at work; blue-collar workers are less happy than others, write Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and George Ward. ... Read more...
13 November 2017
Two research centres have also been established in recent years, looking specifically at post-16 education and training: the Centre for Vocational Education Research at the London School of Economics, and the ... Read more...
Ohoud bint Khalfan Al Roumi, Minister of State for Happiness and Wellbeing, has affirmed that the UAE’s ‘Happiness Policy Manual’, developed by the National Programme for Happiness and P... Read more...
08 November 2017
People prefer happiness to income, children, career and education, but being healthy trumps it all, writes Paul Dolan. ... Read more...
07 November 2017
Tứ Thiện Thái is known as the translator of classic works in the world Happiness - Lessons from a New Science (By Richard Layard): The concept of happiness in the past is very volum... Read more...
06 November 2017
According to the Origins of Happiness report, eliminating mental health issues such as depression and anxiety would increase happiness by 20%, whereas eliminating poverty would increase happiness by only 5%. I... Read more...
02 November 2017
Article by Davide Cantoni, Jeremiah Dittmar and Noam Yuchtman. Five hundred years ago today, Martin Luther posted 95 theses on the Wittenberg Castle church door critiquing Catholic Church corruption, setting o... Read more...
31 October 2017
It was a book that sparked him in 2005, "which absolutely fascinated me," titled "The Happy Company" by British economist and author Sir Richard Layard. Especially a caricature in it gave h... Read more...
28 October 2017
Dubai: The UAE Government has launched a Happiness Policy Manual for government establishments to prioritise people’s happiness, it was announced on Saturday. … The national programme recently org... Read more...
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20 October 2017
While talk of a sudden exodus might be overblown, there is a danger that jobs in the sector could gradually slip away from the capital. Barclays’ Peter Gordon says that, over the next decade, ‘we m... Read more...
19 October 2017
"Money is not the only thing affecting people’s happiness; it's not remotely the whole story," said British economist Baron Richard Layard in 2014. "People must understand that they wo... Read more...
17 October 2017
If policymakers focused on tackling mental illness instead of only focusing on eliminating poverty, global misery levels could decrease by 20 percent, according to a London School of Economics study. Reducing ... Read more...
Awarded an European Research Council Proof of Concept Grant for the NCore project, which aims to develop a mobile app which facilitates access to mental health services and treatments for young peopl... Read more...
12 October 2017
Perhaps you'd prefer to be the happy person that others gravitate to. In that case, in the video above London School of Economics (LSE) economist Lord Richard Layard, founder of Action for Happiness, a mov... Read more...
Another landmark study by researchers at the London School of Economics attributed most human misery to failed relationships and physical and mental illness rather than measurable problems like poverty. These ... Read more...
11 October 2017
Article by Richard Layard With modern psychological therapy, mentally ill people can become more productive and more satisfied with life. ... Read more...
Book includes ‘The map of the world’s happiness’. Photo by New Views. Data source: Helliwell, John F., Richard Layard, and Jeffrey Sachs, eds. 2015. World Happiness Report 2015. New York: Sus... Read more...
09 October 2017
Raise happiness. “Towards a better society” was the theme of the well-attended 2017 conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS) at the University of Innsbruck, Aust... Read more...
07 October 2017
House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee will be holding its first oral evidence session related to the inquiry into the economics of higher, further and technical education on Tuesday 10 October. Paul Johnso... Read more...
05 October 2017
In March 2017 the "World Happiness Report" was published, which includes a chapter on happiness at work. In it, Richard Layard, an economist at the London School of Economics, invites us to think abo... Read more...
03 October 2017
There is a lot of literature that describes the link between happiness and work. For example, Richard Layard, co-founder of the Annual World Happiness Report, said in 2011 that having paid work in place three ... Read more...
30 September 2017
Lord Richard Layard, who informed the public about research at this school, said that the average person has not become happier in the past twenty years, although in this period average per capita income has m... Read more...
28 September 2017
Opinion is divided on whether the breakup of large, diverse countries can increase national wellbeing, write Tony Beatton, Paul Frijters and Nattavudh (Nick) Powdthavee Among the world’s rich count... Read more...
Theresa May stepped in to lead the discussion on what the UK hopes to achieve from its Brexit negotiations with the EU. Swati Dhingra and Josh De Lyon (CEP, LSE) argue that her Fl... Read more...
25 September 2017
The World Happiness Report indicates that bosses have a major effect on the happiness of team members In March 2017 the "World Happiness Report" was published, which includes a chapter on happines... Read more...
If you thought that childhood is the best stage of life, you are wrong, because, according to a study by Center For Economic Performance, the ages in which the human being experiences happiness at its best is ... Read more...
23 September 2017
What is the key to happiness? This is a question that people have been asking for thousands of years. But this question need not be an esoteric and philosophical one. Studies at Harvard University, the London ... Read more...
22 September 2017
Indeed, a recent study by Richard Layard at the London School of Economics suggests that emotional wellbeing in childhood is more important to an adult’s satisfaction levels than academic success or weal... Read more...
12 September 2017
In the September episode of the #LSEIQ podcast we ask, ‘What’s the secret to happiness?’. Western societies have been getting steadily richer for several decades, but social scientists have s... Read more...
09 September 2017
…A paper in the latest American Economic Review (AER) provides an intriguing perspective on the issue. Tim Besley of the LSE and two Swedish colleagues carried out a very detailed empirical analysis ... Read more...
16 August 2017
According to a study by the London School of Economics (LSE), with the participation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, most human misery is not due to economic factors, but to faile... Read more...
13 August 2017
In 2005 David Clark, a professor of psychology at Oxford University, and economist Richard Layard, a member of the House of Lords, concluded that providing therapy to people like Oliver made economic sense. &l... Read more...
06 August 2017
… David Clark, a professor of psychology at the University of Oxford, and economist Richard Layard, a member of the House of Lords, concluded that offering therapy to people like Oliver made economic se... Read more...
03 August 2017
In 2005 David Clark, a professor of psychology at Oxford University, and economist Richard Layard, a member of the House of Lords, concluded that providing therapy to people like Oliver made economic sense. ... Read more...
Basically the only American-born group that you could even plausibly argue are harmed is high school dropouts. This is a fairly tiny group, but it’s not even clear they are harmed. Research by the Univer... Read more...
Telford will be among the UK towns least-affected by a hard Brexit, a report claims – although economists today denied its suggestion that a lack of skills in the town will cushion the blow. Researche... Read more...
28 July 2017
The same report by academics (John F. Helliwell, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and Vancouver School of Economics Richard Layard, Director, London School of Economics, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Columbia Univ... Read more...
12 July 2017
10 July 2017
According to Richard Layard, one of the study's leaders, "evidence shows that the things that matter most to happiness and misery are social relationships and mental and physical health." In his ... Read more...
In particular, Switzerland takes the first place on the list that the World Economic Forum (a Swiss setting) on the global competitiveness, and also on the list of most innovative countries by the French busin... Read more...
Newspaper headlines this week have been shouting about a crash in the housing market. Massive collapse! Property prices could plunge! We hear from the man quoted in many of those stories, Professor Paul Cheshi... Read more...
08 July 2017
On the fifth list that I use for the rankings of the Netherlands increased rankings again though. Dutch were something happier and are now a position higher, at place 6 of the Happiness index of economists Ric... Read more...
07 July 2017
There are many benefits to putting happiness at the centre of business and policy decisions, says economist Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, a professor at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School. He points... Read more...
06 July 2017
The human condition today is ever more complex in an era of the internet, social media and the focus on status, appearance and material success. However, more is required as an antidote than early intervention... Read more...
02 July 2017
As has become the tradition for our last post of the academic year, we’re featuring summer reading recommendations from special people at LSE. This year, two winners of the LSESU Teaching Excellence Awar... Read more...
26 June 2017
“There will be a lot of political pressure to get as much of the finance industry moved to the EU as possible,” said Tom Kirchmaier, a fellow in the financial-markets group at the London School of ... Read more...
23 June 2017
Dominique Goux, Marc Gurgand and Eric Maurin Related publications ‘in brief… What can be done to help low-Achieving teenagers?’ Dominique Goux, Marc Gurgand and Eric Maurin.&... Read more...
06 June 2017
Lord Layard, who is a government adviser for a current four-year trial of weekly mindfulness classes in 26 schools, said there was an obsession with measuring only academic achievement. “The developme... Read more...
12 March 2017
‘Agglomeration externalities and urban growth controls’, Wouter Vermeulen, Journal of Economic Geography Volume 17, Issue 1, January 2017 http://bit.ly/2n719tK Related publications Agglome... Read more...
09 March 2017
Having good mental health and being in a good relationship makes people happier than doubling income points says study. The London School of Economics, in the United Kingdom, interviewed 200,000 people i... Read more...
08 March 2017
If I asked what makes you happy what would you say? I think many of us would answer money. But according to a study by researchers at the London School of Economics, much of the world’s unhappiness stems... Read more...
05 March 2017
The UN in this regard, ruled: "the year 2015 is a milestone for mankind by the adoption, in September, of sustainable development goals (SDGS), to help guide the world community towards a more inclusive a... Read more...
04 March 2017
The government is refusing to say whether more funding will be given to two “pioneering” FE research centres after their start-up grants end shortly. Meanwhile, the Centre for Vocational Educati... Read more...
03 March 2017
Almost eight out of 10 people think that the money spoiled people. This is supported by one of the gurus of happiness research, Richard Layard. In his book Happiness. Related publications Happiness: Less... Read more...
The Olympics shouldn’t be sold as bringing any wider benefits at all – but, instead as a very expensive party. Hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 cost about £150 per UK tax payer – but i... Read more...
During the debate on 'Building more homes' in the Economic Affairs Committee, Lord Layard mentioned LSE: "Professor Cheshire at the London School of Economics has suggested a levy on the final ... Read more...
28 February 2017
Almost eight out of 10 people think that money spoils people. This is supported by one of the gurus of the research of happiness, Richard Layard. Related publications Happiness: Lessons from a... Read more...
21 February 2017
The show was on www.trtworld.com/live at these times on Friday 17 February (GMT): 1630/ 2030/ 0130/ 0730/ 1230 Insight: Seasonal affective disorder and the business of happiness &n... Read more...
17 February 2017
Miami will be the site of the first global gathering of governmental leaders, economists, academics and researchers for the World Happiness Summit next month, the summit announced. The H20 is one of four tr... Read more...
16 February 2017
Childhood has a tremendous influence on a person’s entire life. A study from the London School of Economics exploring what makes people happy found that a person’s emotional health as a child was t... Read more...
15 February 2017
By checking on people at random times of the day via an app, Alex Bryson and George MacKerron uncover the misery of work. Related links Alex Bryson, CEP Alumni, Labour Markets Programme. ... Read more...
08 February 2017
Most experts have assumed the responsibilities of governance would temper Trump's trade posture. Given that nearly one-third of all U.S. trade is conducted with China and Mexico, a rupture risks severe eco... Read more...
31 January 2017
The World Wellbeing Panel agrees that every effort should be made to reduce middle management, write Nick Powdthavee and Paul Frijters. Workers’ satisfaction with their job is, on average, higher in ... Read more...
30 January 2017
DW spoke to economist Thomas Sampson from the London School of Economics ahead of British Prime Minister Theresa May's visit to the White House. She is the first world leader to meet the new US President D... Read more...
26 January 2017
Speaking to Daily Star Online, John Van Reenen, Professor of Economics at LSE, said Mrs May might be tempted to strengthen her hand in parliament. He said an election could boost her authority in both Houses, ... Read more...
24 January 2017
In December 2016 an electronic version of a new report became available, prior to its imminent publication in book form, by the London School of Economics. Dubbed ‘The Layard Report’ after key... Read more...
23 January 2017
Health and friends: the formula of happiness according to science According to researcher Lord Richard Layard, people have not increased their levels of happiness in the past 50 years, while the average inc... Read more...
12 January 2017
When the rich also cry Richard Layard in his book "Happiness", says that the standard of life is similar to the alcohol or to the drugs. Once is has some experience in that sense, is necessary fol... Read more...
11 January 2017
As highlighted by LSE researchers, UK education policymakers have focused much of their attention on improving academic achievement over the last half century, in the hope that this will result in higher level... Read more...
The old folk saying "If you've got your health you've got your wealth" is finding new proponents from a recent study done by the London College of Economics, under the direction of Lord Richa... Read more...
10 January 2017
A compilation of surveys show that millennial's happiness is closely tied to having close friends at work. Good working relationships seem to make people more productive and satisfied with life. … ... Read more...
According to a study from the London School of Economics, brisk walking is a better deterrent against obesity than any other form of exercise. Men and women who walk briskly for more than 30 minutes a day w... Read more...
03 January 2017
In terms of emotional well-being, “there is no further progress beyond an annual income of $75,000,” researchers wrote, concluding that “high income buys life satisfaction but not happiness.&... Read more...
30 December 2016
LSE study led by Labour peer found that failed relationships and physical and mental illness were bigger causes of misery than poverty Clinical psychologists have raised the alarm over a controversial piece... Read more...
26 December 2016
A a survey of leading wellbeing researchers from around the world finds that more public holidays would be better for everyone, writes Paul Frijters. The World Wellbeing Panel on wellbeing and public holida... Read more...
24 December 2016
Too often in our business we focus primarily on finances. Of course, that is what financial professionals do, but we could be neglecting an important, maybe more important, piece of the pie. The recent London ... Read more...
22 December 2016
This is the consensus finding of a survey of leading wellbeing researchers from around the world, writes Paul Frijters. Related articles: World Wellbeing Panel Survey: ‘Wellbeing and Public Holi... Read more...
An economist claimed Messi would be in prison now in the United States Economist Luis Garicano was recently elected by the Ciudadanos to take over one of the vice presidencies of the Party of the Alliance o... Read more...
20 December 2016
While increasing salary had a minimal effect on people’s wellbeing, unemployment reduces the happiness of each unemployed person by about 0.7 points on average. ... Read more...
19 December 2016
What makes humans happy? What makes you happy? Is it the material and tangible things? Or is it experiences or people? Happiness can be measured and defined in so many ways but according to a study by a t... Read more...
16 December 2016
What distinguishes ‘Les Misérables’ from the rest is neither poverty nor unemployment, but mental illness, write Andrew Clark, Sarah Fleche, Richard Layard, Nattavudh (Nick) Powdthavee and G... Read more...
12 December 2016
Understanding the key determinants of people’s life satisfaction will suggest policies for how best to reduce misery and promote wellbeing. This column discusses evidence from survey data on Australia, B... Read more...
Good mental health and having a partner make people happier than doubling their income, a new study has found. The research by the London School of Economics looked at responses from 200,000 people on how diff... Read more...
Consume magazine content increases the well-being of 6% Professor Paul Dolan of the London School of Economics and Political Science, a world authority on Positive Psychology and happiness, largely inspired... Read more...
05 December 2016
Many people think that migrants take jobs away from citizens, reduce wages or both. Others argue that immigrants benefit the economy because they take risks and start businesses. In three short videos be... Read more...
29 November 2016
The book flies over aspects featured of the cases of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland, countries that are located well above in rankings that measure development, welfare or happiness. The report on 2016 wo... Read more...
17 November 2016
The studies, by the Treasury, the thinktank NIESR and the Centre for Economic Performance and London School of Economics, predicted the effect on the British economy if the UK was to opt for a Norway-style model. That wo... Read more...
18 October 2016
[Jeremy] Corbyn too is proposing a solution ''which would reduce numbers'', despite the fact in its 2015 General Election briefing, the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics observed: ''There ... Read more...
06 October 2016
I am one of those people who, as she anticipated, have a bit of a problem with something Mrs May said about immigration: If you're one of those people who lost their job, who stayed in work but on reduced ... Read more...
05 October 2016
Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia affect huge numbers of people - a third of all over-80s have some form of dementia, estimates the US CDC. This has two key effects. Firstly, Alzheimer's is a major killer in its o... Read more...
23 September 2016
Even [Sadiq] Khan's predecessor Boris Johnson campaigned with several plans to build 55,000 new homes in London and to slow down the price increase caused by demand pressures. Up to the end of his tenure, he failed. Khan... Read more...
22 September 2016
There have been major changes to Ireland's apprenticeship system over the past few years, and now the overall number of apprentices is expected to increase to about 10,700. And, although Ireland's apprenticeship system i... Read more...
13 September 2016
Prime minister champions grammar system but critics argue reforms will damage social mobility But critics were quick to dismiss the reforms. Professor Sandra McNally, director of education and skills at the London Schoo... Read more...
09 September 2016
Returning to the interim UN report for happiness, you can find an interesting proposal in many respects. Found in Chapter 3, which shall be signed by the head of the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School o... Read more...
22 August 2016
Britain's statistics office has recruited a group of economic heavyweights to boost its ability to crunch numbers on the health of the economy. ... Three economics professor have also been recruited to the working group... Read more...
18 August 2016
Laura Kudrna, a London School of Economics scholarship PhD candidate, researches the effects of achievement on happiness, particularly focusing on examples of when greater success - be it financial, academic, romantic, ... Read more...
New initiatives planned to end 'unacceptable and unlawful' discrimination against working women Employers are being told to do more to help mothers breastfeed their babies at work, as part of the government's latest i... Read more...
15 August 2016
Data to calculate Gross National Happiness (GNH) includes asking respondents to measure their perceived quality of life on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 representing the worst and 10 the best possible outcome. The latest r... Read more...
06 August 2016
My best year is supposed to be now. Sixty-nine years old, to be exact. According to the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, the two happiest years of life are 23 and 69. In between, w... Read more...
03 August 2016
Professor Curran said said non-tariff barriers could raise costs for NI farmers by between 2% and 4% and a recent study by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) found that a 2% increase in non-tariff barriers could a... Read more...
27 July 2016
British people are at their least happy while at work - except when they are sick in bed - according to a study forthcoming in the Economic Journal. The researchers Alex Bryson and George MacKerron analysed more tha... Read more...
... Indeed, the ideological common ground of the political class has perhaps been nowhere more apparent than in the transformation of wellbeing or happiness from being a free individua'ls pursuit into the object of gover... Read more...
19 July 2016
Silver is Better than Bronze Obviously, an Olympian wants to go for the gold. But, if you don't win the gold, you will probably be happier to win the bronze instead of a silver medal. That's according to the Centr... Read more...
18 July 2016
Olympians who won the silver medal are less happy than their counterparts who achieved bronze according to the results of a new study of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. Researchers behind the study argue tha... Read more...
17 July 2016
British athletes heading for the Rio Olympics next month will be dreaming of winning a gold medal. But those who cannot bag the top spot may find they are happier with a bronze than coming second. For those who do end... Read more...
16 July 2016
New research has found ''no evidence'' that academy status leads to better grades for pupils at schools rated good or satisfactory. The study, by the London School of Economics and the Education Policy Institute (EPI)... Read more...
12 July 2016
''You're going to see in increase in consumer prices from Brexit and most of that is going to hit the middle income,'' Swati Dhingra, assistant professor at LSE's Department of Economics and Centre for Economic Performan... Read more...
24 June 2016
Article by Marc Fleurbaey and Hannes Schwandt One of people's most important goals tends to be the pursuit of happiness. In a new survey which measures people's subjective well-being (another way of thinking about happi... Read more...
22 June 2016
Numbers are being thrown around by the Vote Leave and Vote Remain campaigns like they're going out of fashion - but what do the experts say and can we trust them? Six out of seven reports predict a Brexit will hurt us ... Read more...
06 June 2016
Why do so many people want children while they themselves are not happy at all in spirit? Also, we have a selective memory. When we look back on our experiences, we remember the highlights, such as the first smile of a ... Read more...
01 June 2016
Brexit uncertainty ''would tend to push up risk premia'', as InFacts has already pointed out. Funding costs for banks could go up, as would borrowing costs for homeowners and consumers. The UK's current account deficit i... Read more...
12 May 2016
Perhaps the most overlooked aspect of economic inequality has been the role that firms play in it. It's safe to say that a significant part of the growing gap in how well different firms pay can be attributed to the lat... Read more...
11 May 2016
The Panama Papers have helped expose just how big the problems of offshore tax havens are. Professor Gabriel Zucman, from the London School of Economics, had already estimated the amount of offshore money by measuring di... Read more...
19 April 2016
Article by Jonathan Wadsworth Welcome back. The Bank of England has a regular labour market commentary in its quarterly bulletin in which it looks at issues that may influence productivity, wage pressure and hence infla... Read more...
18 April 2016
Swati Dhingra, Assistant Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Senior Lecturer with the Trade Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance (LSE), is among the final shortl... Read more...
07 April 2016
David Cameron has mocked eurosceptics for failing to work together as a new report claims each British family pays £200 a year less thanks to the European Union. ... Meanwhile a report produced by the Centre for E... Read more...
31 March 2016
For over two years, a research team at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) has been studying the likely impact of the UK leaving the European Union. Their latest report focuses on the impact of 'Brexit' through cha... Read more...
21 March 2016
The Danes are the happiest people on Earth, followed by the Swiss, while Britons are comparatively miserable among the rich nations, but happier than the French and Italians. The only European countries happier than the ... Read more...
16 March 2016
The SDSN is pleased to present the 2016 World Happiness Report in two volumes - the 2016 Update and the Special Rome Edition, including an update on national rankings and new analyses. A key focus this year is on the in... Read more...
Not exactly, but researchers from the London School of Economics and Political Science did find that walkers tend to be thinner than gym-goers. In an analysis of 50,000 people over the age of 13, those who did at least 3... Read more...
11 March 2016
In an article entitled 'Be happy, pay more to the taxman', Professor Richard Layard argues that it is the income gap, rather than total wealth that is most pertinent to people's happiness. Studies show, writes Layard, th... Read more...
08 March 2016
But how much of a difference can brisk walking make in comparison to other forms of exercise? Using measurements based on body mass index (BMI) - ratio of height to weight, researcher Dr. Grace Lordan a specialist in he... Read more...
01 March 2016
In the latest State of Working Britain blog, editor Professor Jonathan Wadsworth writes: Common Mis-Perceptions About Recent UK Labour Market Performance No 1. A Record number of people in work The opening sentenc... Read more...
In the 1990s the dream of measuring happiness enjoyed a revival. The proliferation of smartphones allowed researchers to develop apps that would, for the first time, allow them to collect real-time reports of happiness f... Read more...
21 February 2016
Latest State of Working Britain blog by Jonathan Wadsworth The central message is that it would be wrong to conclude from analysis of the net change in employment that migrants take all new jobs. Rather the net change i... Read more...
09 February 2016
[David] Blanchflower and [Stephen] Machin argue labour market must tighten further before pay growth picks up, something Bank of England consistently fails to acknowledge. This article was published by The Guardian on F... Read more...
02 February 2016
In the first of a new blog from LSE's Centre for Economic Performance, Jonathan Wadsworth comments on the issue of full employment in the UK. This article was published online by the CEP's The State of Working Britain b... Read more...
26 January 2016
The Treasury's top civil servant, Sir Nicholas Macpherson, is set to stand down in April, having led the Government department for over a decade. George Osborne, the Chancellor, said he would ''miss'' Sir Nicholas, 56,... Read more...
04 January 2016
Happiness expert Prof Paul Dolan, a professor at the London School of Economics, recently outlined five tips for feeling more content. This article was published online by the Telegraph on December 17, 2015 Link to art... Read more...
17 December 2015
Article by Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin Private tutoring is booming and elite universities remain preserve of middle classes; something must change, say Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin Social mobility is t... Read more...
09 December 2015
Sandra McNally, Director of the Centre for Vocational Education Research, considers the possible impact of Chancellor George Osborne's November 25 Budget. This article was published in FEWeek.co.uk on November 27, 2015 ... Read more...
27 November 2015
Happiness in life can be traced in the shape of a 'U'. We start with the enthusiasm of 20 years, then you hit the lowest point between 45 and 55, but from sixty things start to look up again. ... The latest confirmation... Read more...
And just to be clear, having a kid isn't worse for you than unemployment or losing a spouse, even though that's what the new study found. Nick Powdthavee, a happiness researcher at the London School of Economics and the ... Read more...
26 November 2015
A study on happiness by researchers Dr Terence Cheng (University of Adelaide), Professor Nattavudh Powdthavee (Centre for Economic Performance, LSE) and Professor Andrew Oswald (Warwick University), verified a U-shaped ... Read more...
25 November 2015
Richard Layard profiled: ''Richard Layard, who believes the basic purpose of economics is the maximization of happiness and well-being'' A day after sharing a stage with the Dalai Lama, London School of Economics (LSE)... Read more...
All said, are Nicaraguans happier? According to the World Happiness Report 2015, edited by John Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey Sachs, Nicaraguans are indeed happier now than they were in 2007. Nicaragua ranks fir... Read more...
10 November 2015
Prioritising wellbeing as a key measure of whether policy is improving human lives would lead to more interventions like the provision of psychological therapy for people with mental health problems, which increased acc... Read more...
... maybe a brisk walk this is the thing researchers at the London School of Economics reckon going freight 30 minute brisk ... This piece was broadcast by BBC Radio Nottingham on November 9, 2015 Link to article here ... Read more...
09 November 2015
Walking officially beats them all, hands (or rather feet) down. Regular walking is the best thing you can do to achieve and maintain a healthy weight, according to a study from the London School of Economics. It conclude... Read more...
WISH has also established the Mental Health and Well-being in Children Forum, chaired by Professor the Lord Richard Layard, Wellbeing Program Director at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Econom... Read more...
08 November 2015
A third FE research centre has launched just a year after Professor Lady Alison Wolf decried how the sector was ''woefully short of good, up-to-date research''. ... The work of the new centre, said Mr Grainger, would co... Read more...
05 October 2015
Richard Layard, emeritus Professor of economics at the LSE interviewed on action for happiness campaign for increased happiness and kindness in the UK. The interview was broadcast by BBC World Service on September 21, 2... Read more...
21 September 2015
In the afternoon, an enthusiastic and friendly audience of more than 2000 awaited His Holiness's arrival at the Lyceum theatre. He was met at the stage door by his old friend Lord Richard Layard, who with Director of Act... Read more...
In the 70's, the New Yorker Richard Easterlin Economist concluded that, once past a certain level of income in the richest nations, happiness not increased as a result of higher revenues. Today we know for scientific res... Read more...
16 September 2015
... the wrong person. Expert on happiness, Professor Paul Dolan of the London School of Economics, believes that ... This article was published by the Birmingham Post on September 16, 2015 [No link available to the ar... Read more...
Solidarity Economy: Conversations with the Dalai Lama about altruism, development and compassion The Mind and Life Institute was born in 1987 ... the Professor Emeritus of Economics at the London School of Economics, Lo... Read more...
28 August 2015
Records: the happiest country in the world On April 24, 2015, the 2015 Edition of the happiness of the world (World Happiness Report) was published. The work includes a happiness measure, taking into account 158 countri... Read more...
11 August 2015
Money, as the song lyric has it, can't buy you love - or happiness. Happiness, as Richard Layard's research shows, depends much more on the quality of our personal relationships than on our income. In many ways, the most... Read more...
22 June 2015
Why? It could be because most of us just are wired a certain way. ''Most of what we do simply comes about rather than being thought about'', said Paul Dolan, professor of behavioural science, London School of Economics. ... Read more...
11 June 2015
...its roster of contributors includes John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard of the London School of Economics, and Jeffrey D. Sachs who is, among other things, special advisor to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Overall,... Read more...
10 June 2015
In the freedom to make life choices, too, India performs poorly. There are many inherent inhibitions in this freedom, mainly for women. Richard Layard, director of the Wellbeing Programme at the London School of Economi... Read more...
05 June 2015
Discussion of Paul Dolan's recent comments on what makes people happier. This interview was broadcast by Heart London (Radio) on June 2, 2015 [No link available] Also on BBC Newcastle Swansea Sound Magic FM Rel... Read more...
02 June 2015
The Chris Blackhurst interview from 13 July 2014 How could we become a happier nation? One pioneering economist has spent the best part of a decade arguing that we simply must find an answer to this question - gaining ... Read more...
01 June 2015
A respected ''happiness expert'' has revealed five simple ways to make yourself feel immediately better. Paul Dolan, a professor of behavioural science at the London School of Economics, said the answer to feeling happie... Read more...
Earning more money, bagging the fabulous job you have always wanted, or travelling the world might seem like keys to happiness. But, according to ''happiness expert'' Paul Dolan, making simple changes is the key to bring... Read more...
Discussion of Paul Dolan's event at the Hay Festival, and the ways people can feel happier. The interview was broadcast by BBC London 94.9FM on May 31, 2015 [No link available] Also on: BBC Radio ... Read more...
31 May 2015
More money, the job of your life may seem like the keys to a happier life. However it is no less true that happiness is, according to Professor Paul Dolan. Just small changes that bring joy and give meaning to life can... Read more...
According to happiness expert Prof Paul Dolan, making simple changes are the key to creating joy. Prof Dolan, of the London School of Economics, has claimed a work promotion may bring more stress, travelling can be lonel... Read more...
Richard Layard, a British social economist and associate of Kahneman, found himself at the top table of Britain's New Labour government when it took power in 1997. The press gave him the title Happiness Tsar, and his 200... Read more...
10 May 2015
Paul Dolan teaches at the London School of Economics and was a visiting scholar at Princeton where he worked with Nobel-Prize winner Daniel Kahneman. He explains the importance of attention in his book, Happiness by Desi... Read more...
31 March 2015
Bestselling behavioural scientist Paul Dolan - also known as 'Professor Happy' - busts a few myths about love It is the week before Valentine's Day, and in his office at the London School of Economics (LSE), Dolan ''al... Read more...
14 February 2015
Los enumero Nick Powdthavee, economista comportamental de la Universidad de York autor del libro ''La ecuacion de la felicidad'' The 10 things that make a man happy The behavioral economist, Nick Powdthavee, has looked... Read more...
03 February 2015
Should we follow the British economist Sir Richard Layard? ''According to him, work contributes to happiness insofar as it contributes to the society and gives some meaning to the life of the worker'', says Cyril Perrier... Read more...
29 January 2015
According to the latest research in scatenarla crisis is not linked to money or old age but to the collapse of expectations and loss of job Terence c. Cheng, Nattavudh Powdthavee and Andrew j. Oswald of the University o... Read more...
26 January 2015
We demand happiness! Despite the reservations you can make there, we find that the British are busy with something special. That is why we went to London to investigate where they, four years after Cameron's speech, wit... Read more...
25 January 2015
This is consistent with other experiments by Nick Powdthavee and Yohanes Riyanto, who conclude that ''an average person is often happy to pay for what could only be described as transparently useless advice''. This ar... Read more...
22 January 2015
What makes people happy? Measuring human happiness is increasingly becoming a pursuit of economists, who use a range of research tools to gauge and quantify popular contentment at a national level. A common factor is mon... Read more...
13 January 2015
Esta interesante reflexion de Gilbert incide directamente en otro pensamiento, tambien muy habitual, que es el de que el dinero no compra la felicidad. En una sociedad tan materialista como la actual es tremendamente com... Read more...
10 January 2015
British epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett have changed how the world thinks about economic inequality - and they have a wealth of new insights to share. Wilkinson and Pickett are now completing a new boo... Read more...
05 January 2015
Professor Paul Dolan was interviewed about happiness. The interview was broadcast by BBC World on November 25, 2014 [No link available] Related links Paul Dolan webpage Wellbeing Programme webpage ... Read more...
25 November 2014
Article by Paul Dolan Paul Dolan explains how happiness should be defined and measured in terms of experiences of pleasure and purpose over time. This article was published by the Guardian on November 22, 2014 Lin... Read more...
22 November 2014
Everett was supported by Lord Richard Layard and Lord Gus O'Donnell who were also speaking at the launch of the index. Lord O'Donnell said: ''One of the biggest, clearest conclusions from wellbeing analysis is that we s... Read more...
21 November 2014
Article by Paul Dolan Being happy at work is important. Studies suggest that if you're not happy at work, you're less productive, more likely to take days off sick, and a poor problem solver. Still, some people mainta... Read more...
20 November 2014
Paul Dolan on a panel discussion show about happiness. The programme 'Free Thinking' was broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on November 19, 2014 No link to the broadcast is available. Related links Paul Dolan webpage We... Read more...
19 November 2014
''Happiness is caused by what we pay attention to'', says [Paul] Dolan, a professor of behavioural science at the London School of Economics, who devised the questions being used in large surveys on happiness in the UK, ... Read more...
18 November 2014
What a growing body of research reveals about the biology of human happiness - and how to navigate the (temporary) slump in middle age Oswald, Terence Cheng, and Nattavudh Powdthavee have found the U-curve in four longi... Read more...
17 November 2014
It is generally agreed that firms can improve their employees' wellbeing through improvements in job quality - but is it in their economic interests to do so? This column reports research showing that satisfied employee... Read more...
Experts including comedian Ruby Wax, author Gretchen Rubin, and LSE professor Paul Dolan tell you how to find happiness in everyday life. Paul Dolan provides 5 suggestions for gaining happiness. This article was pu... Read more...
16 November 2014
To see my point, consider this paper by Alex Bryson and George MacKerron. They show that I'm not unusual. They asked people at random times of the day how happy they were and what they were doing. They found that people ... Read more...
14 November 2014
Richard Layard and his colleagues at the Wellbeing research programme at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance conclude that a child's emotional health is far more important to their satisfactio... Read more...
08 November 2014
In an article sourced from the Centre for Economic Performance's Mental Health Policy Group, the Health and Social Care Information Centre, the Mental Health Foundation, Young Minds and the Guardian the Mirror explains w... Read more...
09 October 2014
Some researchers have studied the characteristics of happy people. They identified six factors which only concern the economy (unemployment), the others being: divorce rate, the level of trust between the people, the nu... Read more...
08 October 2014
The ONS' data showed that whilst, on average, Londoners have the highest disposable incomes in the country they are also the most anxious and have the lowest levels of life satisfaction. None of this will come as any sur... Read more...
24 September 2014
In a short online film, Professor Richard Layard of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) explains why treating mental illness should be high on the public agenda, especially as proven psychological therapies effecti... Read more...
23 September 2014
Rowan Pelling enjoys a new approach to the old problem of happiness I bet politicians hanker for the days when they only had to worry whether the population was fed and plague-free, rather than fretting about their well... Read more...
25 August 2014
''Lost happiness is lost for ever'' could be a slogan emblazoned on the favourite T-shirt of a pseudo-intellectual teenage poet, or the tag line of a deep-house club night in Dalston, east London. In fact, it's the life ... Read more...
24 August 2014
The project cites Thrive: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Therapies – the latest work by Richard Layard, co-authored with David Clark, professor of psychology at Oxford University. Mr Layard is credited as on... Read more...
22 August 2014
Two of the key figures behind government reform in mental health care have spoken of the success of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) initiative. Professor Lord Richard Layard, Emeritus Professor of ... Read more...
19 August 2014
Tiger mothers predestine their children to do well at school even before they are born, research has suggested. Babies born to highly competitive women who believe that they have the power to shape their children's prosp... Read more...
Article by Paul Dolan There are two main sources of evidence that technology is creating distracted mindsets amongst us. The first is from neuroscience: Technology physically alters the way our brains work. The brains ... Read more...
18 August 2014
Babies born to mothers who hold a stronger belief that their fate is in their own hands and not down to luck tend to perform better in their GCSE exams 16 years later. That is the central finding of new research by the C... Read more...
The lost productivity and direct health expenses have an economic cost; in a recent analysis for the Mental Health Commission of Canada, the value was pegged at $50-billion a year. Labour economist Richard Layard argues ... Read more...
15 August 2014
The economist Richard Layard, after advocating that the goal of public policy should be to maximise happiness, set out to learn what the greatest impediment to happiness was today. His conclusion: depression. Depression ... Read more...
''En los paises ricos, las enfermedades mentales son el 38 percent de todas las enfermedades; y el porcentaje trepa a 50 percent en la poblacion trabajadora'', dice Richard Layard, economista de la London School of Econo... Read more...
27 July 2014
One in three families contains someone who suffers mental illness, with one in 10 children having diagnosable mental disorders - yet fewer than one-third of these people receive treatment. Such shocking statistics litte... Read more...
The true scale of the neglect of mental health in Britain is laid bare in Thrive, a remarkable and passionately argued new book by economics professor Lord Richard Layard and the clinical psychologist David Clark, which ... Read more...
25 July 2014
Mental health is receiving just 10% of NHS spending across England, with some areas dedicating more like 6 percent of their budgets to it, Sky News can reveal. Charities say the figures ''paint a profoundly worrying pict... Read more...
On average, local health authorities across England spent 10 percent of their annual budgets on mental health services during 2013/14, despite research from the London School of Economics that shows that it accounted for... Read more...
Martin Knapp discusses cost of autism to the UK. The interview was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 News on July 20, 2014 [No link available.] Related links Martin Knapp webpage Wellbeing Programme webpage ... Read more...
20 July 2014
In the twenty-first century, however, the pursuit of happiness has become one of the most important means of judging our quality of life. ''Happiness is an aspiration of every human being,'' write John F. Helliwell, Rich... Read more...
19 July 2014
Article by Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Luis Garicano Summer reading: the new regeneration Our normally apathetic civil society mobilizes periodically to demand institutional changes that bring us closer to Europe ... Read more...
Stavolta il pezzo mancante non sembra tuttavia nascondersi sotto il divano - come nelle piu consuete scenette ricreative familiari - ma trovarsi tra le pagine di Thrive: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Therapie... Read more...
18 July 2014
Letter page Sir, In his very timely commentary, Martin Wolf addressed the increasingly urgent issue of personal misery and its social impact caused by our failure to treat depression and crippling anxiety, now affectin... Read more...
Article by David M. Clark and Richard Layard Mental illness is the main sickness of the working age population with economic costs around 8% of GDP. This column, based on the authors' recent book, discusses the effectiv... Read more...
17 July 2014
Article by Henry Overman Our latest evidence review on the economic impact of cultural and sport projects might make for uncomfortable reading for some local decision makers. We looked at these programmes' effects on wa... Read more...
16 July 2014
Film of the July 10 book launch for Thrive: the power of evidence-based psychological therapies. David Clark, Richard Layard in conversation with the BBC's Andrew Marr. The video was posted online to the LSE You Tu... Read more...
Richard Layard interviewed, speaking about the issues highlighted in new book Thrive, around the need for better treatment of mental health and providing psychological therapies more widely. This interview was broad... Read more...
15 July 2014
Yesterday the Independent featured an interview with British economist Richard Layard. The article's headline features Layard proclaiming ''that money is not the only thing affecting peoples happiness''. Layard has writt... Read more...
14 July 2014
''I've been hugely influenced by my co-author David Clark, one of the world's leading clinical psychologists. He always stressed to me that the aim of therapy is not to help people manage their condition but to recover a... Read more...
The Chris Blackhurst Interview: With one in six adults in the UK suffering from mental illness, Professor Lord Richard Layard is convinced it's time for a serious response from Government - which would save the NHS mone... Read more...
13 July 2014
A new study adds some empirical firepower to the idea that poor patent laws are crushing innovation in the technology industry. Researchers from the London School of Economics studied citations from patents that were inv... Read more...
12 July 2014
Article by Richard Layard and David M. Clark, 3rd instalment in a series of excerpts from 'Thrive' A standard course of cognitive behavioural therapy involves up to 16 one-hour sessions, one-on-one - with the average nu... Read more...
11 July 2014
In an interview with Joel Suss, editor of the British Politics and Policy blog, Richard Layard discusses the importance of combating mental illness and his new book, Thrive: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Ther... Read more...
10 July 2014
Depression and anxiety cause more misery than physical illness, poverty or unemployment. They also impose huge economic costs. Yet they are amenable to effective and relatively cheap treatments. In the UK, however, fewer... Read more...
Once upon a time, David Cameron said that general wellbeing matters as much GDP. What's it all for if a country grows richer but its people feel no better? A genuine attempt at prioritizing wellbeing would be revolutiona... Read more...
09 July 2014
Men det finnes grenser. Professor Richard Layard ved London School of Economics har funnet ut at tilfredshet og lykke stiger dramatisk med okt kjopekraft - inntil man nar en arsinntekt pa rundt 20.000 dollar, eller rundt... Read more...
07 July 2014
Ultimately the biggest task remains ensuring our creaking health service is more responsive to the needs of mental health outpatients. And here there may be cause for cautious optimism. Because new research by Professo... Read more...
The Northern Futures project is a new approach to policymaking which means that rather than decisions being made by politicians and civil servants in Whitehall, the power is given to the people who live and work there. .... Read more...
04 July 2014
According to research from the London School of Economics published in June of this year in the Journal of American Medical Association of Paediatrics the cost of autism to the UK economy is £32 billion. This a... Read more...
03 July 2014
This week, a new book by Lord Layard and Professor David Clark sets out a call for a transformation in the way we think about mental health and the priority mental health care is given. Thrive: the power of evidence-base... Read more...
02 July 2014
Article by Richard Layard Nearly 40 percent of all illness in this country is mental illness, but most of it is untreated. It is the greatest injustice in our society and every party's manifesto needs a plan to redress ... Read more...
01 July 2014
There are now more than 1.1 million children in our schools whose first language ''is known or believed to be other than English'' according to the latest government figures. ... Chinese students are our highest performi... Read more...
David Clark was interviewed, discussing pscyhcological treatments for depression and anxiety. The interview was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on July 1, 2014 Link to programme here [Starts at 2:46:30] ... Read more...
Article by Richard Layard and David M. Clark Treating mental health problems produces extraordinary savings - fewer people on welfare benefits, and fewer people being treated for physical illnesses made worse by mental ... Read more...
Progress means putting the old out of business. Mention of LSE researchers in 1993 who ran the world's first conference on a new topic - an economic explanation for happiness. This article was published by the Time... Read more...
26 June 2014
Henry Overman, a London School of Economics professor who authored the report, has continued to lobby for ''agglomeration'' of big northern cities. Prof Overman said recently that reducing travel time between Leeds and M... Read more...
23 June 2014
Nattavudh ''Nick'' Powdthavee, economista e autor do livro 'The Happiness Equation', diz que temos de tentar ver ''alem do que e vidente em cada vivencia''. Nao pense apenas naquilo que e obvio quando tem de tomar uma d... Read more...
22 June 2014
The team, which included investigators from Penn and the London School of Economics, analyzed existing literature in both countries, updating and supplementing as needed to estimate the cost of accommodation, medical and... Read more...
11 June 2014
Professor Martin Knapp, lead researcher of the study, believes that the discrepancy is caused mainly by a lack of awareness about how the money is spent. ''It's partly because the prevalence and impacts of the disease ha... Read more...
10 June 2014
The team, which also included investigators from the London School of Economics, analyzed existing literature in both countries, updating and supplementing as needed to estimate the cost of accommodation, medical and non... Read more...
Autism is the most costly medical condition in Britain, say researchers. It costs the UK £32 billion a year - more than heart disease, cancer and stroke combined. Researchers at the London School of Economics and ... Read more...
Today's findings, by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics and Political Science, look beyond age 18 to include the costs of a potential lifelong disability. T... Read more...
09 June 2014
The figures showed a clear need for more effective interventions to treat autism, ideally in early life, to make the best use of scarce resources, said lead researcher Prof Martin Knapp, of the London School of Economics... Read more...
Paul Cheshire discusses need for more housing on greenbelts. This interview was broadcast by BBC Berkshire on May 14, 2014 No link available. Related publications Turning houses into gold: the failure of Britis... Read more...
14 May 2014
When the London School of Economics looked at the issues that hold people in long-term unemployment, common mental health difficulties like anxiety and depression were the largest cause. This operates as feedback loop. T... Read more...
13 May 2014
Since 1956, the average American's disposable income (in today's dollars) has tripled from $9,431 to $27,792, according to data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. However, as reported in the book, Happiness, by Richar... Read more...
Christopher Pissarides and other Nobel prize winners among signatories of a new academic report on global anti-drugs policies urging the UN to adopt different policies. This article was published online by Reuters on ... Read more...
06 May 2014
The Labour government recognised the devastating effect mental illness has on millions of people and did something about it. Lord Richard Layard was commissioned to oversee a plan to train 10,000 new counsellors offering... Read more...
15 April 2014
Der Ökonom Richard Layard gilt als Vordenker mehrerer britischer Regierungen. Jetzt fordert er einen radikalen Kurswechsel in der Wirtschaftspolitik: Staaten sollten nicht versuchen, das Wachstum zu steigern, sonder... Read more...
13 April 2014
The commission's authors (who include Richard Layard, an academic who has long supported more use of well-being indices in policy), favour the second measure of general satisfaction with life. More comprehensive cross-co... Read more...
27 March 2014
According to Richard Layard, perhaps the leading advocate of happiness, well-being should be the new ''frontier of the welfare state''. This article was published online by The Conversation on January 9, 2014 Link to... Read more...
09 January 2014
An online network aims to bring policymakers together with academics studying higher education, potentially stimulating new research on neglected areas such as the effectiveness of access spending. The ''Economics of Hig... Read more...
21 November 2013
As Radcliff put it in a CNN op-ed: ''The 'nanny state' works.'' Statistics bear him out. In the 2013 World Happiness Report, published by the UN and compiled by Jeffrey D. Sachs of Columbia University and colleagues fro... Read more...
03 November 2013
Despite economic growth, happiness in the West has not grown in the last 50 years, British happiness guru Richard Layard said a decade ago. This argument is useful for proponents of highly progressive income tax: a flat ... Read more...
16 May 2013
A number of scholars, including London School of Economics Professor Richard Layard, argued that once people had enough to meet their basic needs, somewhere between $8,000 and $25,000 or the equivalent of that in various... Read more...
10 May 2013
John Van Reenen analyses the economic legacy of Margaret Thatcher. In the late 1970s, when the UK was behind other developed nations in terms of material wellbeing, her supply side policies spurred economic revival. Ther... Read more...
10 April 2013
New SERC/Grantham project launched: an investigation of the Carbon Footprint of the Retail Sector LSE's Spatial Economics Research Centre and Grantham Research Institute have begun a new collaborative project expl... Read more...
27 September 2012
The Netherlands ranks fourth on a list of the world’s most contented nations. The list, drawn up by three economists, was published on the eve of a UN conference on happiness. Economists John Helliwell, Richard Layard ... Read more...
03 April 2012
Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, in a speech to the Centre for Social Justice, said: I recently shadowed a GP in Coventry and was surprised by the number of time he referred to IAPT. As he said, a huge... Read more...
31 January 2012
Richard Layard was interviewd by Jeremy Vine about his research findings on Happiness and Wellbeing This show was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on December 2, 2011 Link to programme. Related Links Richard La... Read more...
02 December 2011
Richard Layard discusses the report on happiness. This interview took place on BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme on February 24, 2011 Link to programme (available to download until March ... Read more...
24 February 2011
Money May Not Buy Happiness but Neither Does Poverty In the past 50 years individual levels of wealth have increased by but so have crime, deprivation, depression and addictions to alcohol and drugs. Most of us believe... Read more...
24 February 2009