Alan Wheatley profiles 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 ...

Happiness and wellbeing should be at the heart of the policy agenda, but a major rethink of the role of government is required if they are to truly take centre stage, argue Richard Layard and George ...

This hard sell from the former ‘happiness tsar’ may be a work of passion but it is slapdash, paternalistic and liable to cause some misery Almost any product can be branded, in the wearisome idiom of ...

Call by economics of happiness expert Richard Layard comes as research agency set up under David Cameron is to be axed in Whitehall cuts A Labour government should make the UK the world’s first ...

Another LSE notable, Richard Layard, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the LSE, and author of the book Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, published in 2005 and now available as a Penguin book, ...