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Responsibility Utility and the Difference between Preference and Desirance: Implications for Welfare Evaluation

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Now Unions Increase Job Satisfaction and Wellbeing

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Does Being Angry Limit Your Ability to Think Strategically?

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Maternal Stress and Offspring Lifelong Labor Market Outcomes

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Do You Really Want to Share Everything? The Wellbeing of Work-Linked Couples

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LSE Public Event: Can We Be Happier?

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LIONEL ROBBINS MEMORIAL LECTURES: Liquidity and Leverage

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LIONEL ROBBINS MEMORIAL LECTURES: Liquidity and Leverage

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Healthy Minds in Schools

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ESRC Mental Health Leadership Interviews: #LetsTalkMentalHealth

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The Origins of Happiness: Andrew Marr in conversation with Richard Layard

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Royal Economic Society (RES) 2017 Public Lecture - WHY COMMIT CRIME?

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Man and Machine: the macroeconomics of the digital revolution

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LSE Growth Commission: UK Growth - A New Chapter

The Commission’s second Report is published on 23 February 2017. It addresses new questions facing the UK following the result of the June 2016 Referendum including: What is the UK’s economic future including its relati... Read more...

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LIONEL ROBBINS LECTURES Economics and the Cultivation of Virtue: Cultivating the Virtues of Globalization

Global society is at once deeply interconnected and deeply divided across political, religious, class, ethnic, and linguistic lines. These divides not only threaten prosperity but even human survival. The third lecture c... Read more...

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LIONEL ROBBINS LECTURES Economics and the Cultivation of Virtue: The Hard Problem of Inter-Group Morality

The most difficult moral challenges involve the interaction across groups, whether nation states, private companies, or ethnic groups. In all such cases, there is the deep tendency towards inter-group conflict. The culti... Read more...

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LIONEL ROBBINS LECTURES Economics and the Cultivation of Virtue: Economics and the New Moral Sciences

During the past half century, a new moral science has emerged through the integration of research findings in several fields, including: Evolutionary Biology, Psychology, Neuroscience, Game Theory, Philosophy, Economics,... Read more...

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Subjective well-being over the life course: Evidence and policy implications

"Subjective well-being over the life course: Evidence and policy implications" held at the London School of Economics and Political Science on 12-13 December 2016. The conference was organised by OECD, CEPREMAP, What Wo... Read more...

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LSE Growth Commission Evidence Session - Industrial Policy and Growth

The LSE Growth Commission provides authoritative and evidence-based policy recommendations that aim to foster sustainable and inclusive long-term growth in the UK. Speakers include: Mariana Mazzucato (Professor of Econo... Read more...

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LSE Growth Commission Evidence Session - Openness, Trade and FDI

The LSE Growth Commission provides authoritative and evidence-based policy recommendations that aim to foster sustainable and inclusive long-term growth in the UK. Professor Gianmarco Ottoviano’s team are examining th... Read more...

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LSE Growth Commission Evidence Session - Labour Markets and Inclusive Growth

The LSE Growth Commission provides authoritative and evidence-based policy recommendations that aim to foster sustainable and inclusive long-term growth in the UK. Speakers include: David Autor (MIT), Richard Blundell (U... Read more...

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LSE Growth Commission - post Panel Event - Interviews with Vince Cable, Alistair Darling, George Osborne and Stephanie Flanders

The panel are interviewed after the LSE Growth Commission event, on their views on UK growth, post-Brexit.... Read more...

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What Next for Growth in the UK? - LSE Growth Commission Panel Discussion with Vince Cable, Alistair Darling, George Osborne and Stephanie Flanders

In 2016 the UK now faces new questions about its economic future including its relationship with the EU, the role of industrial policy, and new developments in labour markets. So the Commission is being re-formed and wil... Read more...

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Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures - Improving Equality of Opportunity: New Lessons from Big Data - "Upward Mobility, Innovation and Economic Growth"

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Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures - Improving Equality of Opportunity: New Lessons from Big Data - "Policies to Improve Upward Mobility"

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Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures - Improving Equality of Opportunity: New Lessons from Big Data - "The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility"

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PUBLIC LECTURE - To Brexit or not to Brexit: a taxing question

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Department of Economics and Centre for Macroeconomics public lecture: THE ECONOMICS OF MIGRATION

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Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures: Poverty, Inequality and the Political Economy of Measurement - "Papal infallibility? Global poverty and the mystery of global inequality"

In this year's Lionel Robbins Lectures, Professor Angus Deaton will discuss 'Poverty, Inequality and the Political Economy of Measurement'.... Read more...

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Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures: Poverty, Inequality and the Political Economy of Measurement - "Getting prices right: the mysteries of the index"

In this year's Lionel Robbins Lectures, Professor Angus Deaton will discuss 'Poverty, Inequality and the Political Economy of Measurement'.... Read more...

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Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures: Poverty, Inequality and the Political Economy of Measurement - "A Menagerie of Lines: how to decide who is poor?"

In this year's Lionel Robbins Lectures, Professor Angus Deaton will discuss 'Poverty, Inequality and the Political Economy of Measurement'.... Read more...

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Book Launch - THRIVE: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Therapies

Authors David M. Clark and Richard Layard will discuss their new book 'Thrive' with the BBC's Andrew Marr.... Read more...

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CEP Film: UK Income and Wealth Inequality

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TEDx Oxford Talk

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. What should be our basic purpose in life? What kind of society should we live in? Prof. Layard argues that the objective for our s... Read more...

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LSE Growth Commission Report Launch: Investing in Prosperity

On Thursday 31st January, the LSE Growth Commission will launch their report: Investing in Prosperity. The report is based on evidence taken in public session during 2012 from leading academics, business people and polic... Read more...

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PUBLIC LECTURE & PANEL - Eurozone Deadlock: Finding a Way out of the Crisis

It is still possible, both economically and politically, to find a way out of the Eurozone crisis if policy-makers separately address two problems; dealing with the legacy costs of the initially flawed design of the Euro... Read more...

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LSE Growth Commission Evidence Session: The Role of Skills in a Growth Strategy for the UK

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CEP 21st Birthday Lecture - Mental Health: The New Frontier for the Welfare State

CEP founder Richard Layard will close this series of lectures with a discussion on the economic and social costs of mental illness.... Read more...

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CEP 21st Birthday Lecture: Comparing Real Wages: the McWage Index

Real wages measure worker welfare and the cost of labour. Professor Ashenfelter reports the results of a decade long study of wage rates at McDonald's restaurants in over 60 countries.... Read more...

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Lionel Robbins Memorial Lecture Series

Climate Change and the New Industrial Revolution - How we can get there: building national and international action... Read more...

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Lionel Robbins Memorial Lecture Series

Climate Change and the New Industrial Revolution - How we can respond and prosper... Read more...

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Lionel Robbins Memorial Lecture Series

Climate Change and the New Industrial Revolution - What we risk and how we should cast the economics and ethics... Read more...

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CEP 21st Birthday Event: The Price of Civilization: Economics and Ethics After the Fall

The world economy remains in a precarious state after the global recession - where quick fixes were implemented instead of sustainable solutions to systemic problems. Jeffrey Sachs will discuss why we must - and how we c... Read more...

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CEP 21st Birthday Event: Herd Behaviour and Keeping up with the Joneses

Herd behaviour is very often natural and individually rational, but it has the potential to be disastrous for the group. In this lecture, Andrew Oswald will discuss human herd behaviour and its links to ‘Keeping up with ... Read more...

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CEP 21st Birthday Event: Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman In Conversation with Richard Layard

Why do smart people make bad decisions? How come the best laid plans can go so wrong? What really makes us happy? Kahneman will discuss these questions and more with Richard Layard.... Read more...

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CEP Wellbeing Public Debate: Is happiness the right measure of social progress?

In his book Happiness (recently updated), Richard Layard argues that the best societies are those with the most happiness and the least misery. Public policy should be made on this basis. Robert Skidelsky has many reserv... Read more...

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CEP 21st BIRTHDAY LECTURE SERIES: Too Many People in Britain? Immigration and the Housing Problem

Professor Steve Nickell (Warden, Nuffield College, Oxford). This lecture will look at Immigration and its economic effects including the contribution to population growth. Why does housing not keep up with population gro... Read more...

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CEP 21st BIRTHDAY LECTURE SERIES: Health Care Reform in the US

Spiraling health care costs are currently threatening the future of the U.S. economy. Peter Orszag offers insight on the possible approaches to reduce health-care costs over time without impairing the quality of medical ... Read more...

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BOOK LAUNCH - The Labour Market in Winter: the state of working Britain

This collection of essays - by leading economic experts on the UK labour market - provides an overview of the key issues concerning the performance of the labour market, and the policy issues surrounding it, with a focus... Read more...

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LSE Works: Where is Future Growth Going to Come From?

Where will the sources of new growth come from in the wake of the financial crisis and recession? What is the role of education, labour markets and government policy in supporting this growth?... Read more...

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The Nobel Lecture: Equilibrium in the Labour Market with Search Frictions