Richard Layard (1934–)

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Chapter Chapter 30 in The Palgrave Companion to LSE Economics, 2019, pp 743-763 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Richard Layard has, over the past 50 years, been one of the most influential and wide-ranging economists and public figures in Britain. He has throughout his career been based at LSE, which he has opened up to the world through the creation of research centres and direct links with leading international economists and public figures. Layard has been a driving force in many fields of economic research, including education, public finance, macroeconomics, labour economics, post-communist transition, and the new science of happiness or well-being. He has advised governments, notably the ‘New Labour’ administration from 1997 to 2001, and has driven policy reforms in many areas, in particular measures to reduce unemployment and, most recently, policies to improve the care and treatment of depression.

Keywords: Education; Labour economics; Macroeconomics; Unemployment; Public policy; Well-being/depression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-58274-4_30

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