Richard Layard

Richard Layard (2006)

Peter Layard Richard Grenville, Baron Layard (* 15. March 1934 ) is a British economist and emeritus professor at the London School of Economics (LSE) in London . He has been a Life Peer member of the House of Lords since 2000 .

Life

Layard studied history at King's College of the University of Cambridge and was then as a teacher and research fellow of the Robbins Committee on Higher Education operates. After studying economics at the London School of Economics, he then worked as an academic teacher at the LSE (from 1980 until his retirement in 1999 as a professor) and as a consultant for various organizations and government agencies. Tony Blair's labor market reforms were based in part on his proposals.

He specialized in education and labor economics . In recent years he has endeavored to incorporate knowledge from happiness research into economics.

On May 3, 2000 he was raised to life peer as Baron Layard , of Highgate in the London Borough of Haringey, and has been a member of the Labor Party in the House of Lords ever since .

In 2010 Layard founded the social movement “ Action for Happiness ” in Great Britain together with Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon , which works to build a happier and more caring society worldwide.

Layard is married to Molly Meacher , who was also promoted to life peer as Baroness Meacher in 2006 . He is a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Future of Work (IZA), from which he was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics in 2008 .

Publications

Happiness. Lessons from a New Science. 2005
- The happy company. Change of course for politics and business. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2005, ISBN 3-593-37663-6
  - Moral behavior makes you happy , excerpt from the final chapter, Die Welt , March 24, 2009
  - Greatest possible happiness for everyone! , Review by Ralf Grötker, Telepolis , March 10, 2005
  - Feeling unwell in the midst of wellbeing , review by Friedhelm Wolski-Prenger, Das Parlament , April 25, 2005
with Judy Dunn: A Good Childhood: Searching for Values in a Competitive Age. Penguin, 2009, ISBN 0141039434

Web links

Literature by and about Richard Layard in the catalog of the German National Library
Richard Layard on the London School of Economics website

"Is Blair a leftist, Mr. Layard?" , Interview with Robert Misik in profil , April 2005

Satisfaction: does money make you happy? , Interview with Catrin Boldebuck and Doris Schneyink in stern.de , April 20, 2005

“Too much work is illogical” , interview with Ulrich Machold in Welt am Sonntag , December 25, 2005

Footnotes

↑ Time : Pressure makes you flexible . 28/1998
^ Action for Happiness: About Us. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .
^ Institute for the Future of Work: Richard Layard - Research Fellow

personal data
SURNAME	Layard, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Layard, Peter Richard Grenville, Baron Layard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British university professor and member of the House of Lords
DATE OF BIRTH	March 15, 1934

[1] Time : Pressure makes you flexible . 28/1998

[2] Action for Happiness: About Us. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .

[3] Institute for the Future of Work: Richard Layard - Research Fellow