Richard Layard
British labor economist
Richard Layard is a British labor economist who has written about the economics of happiness and mental health. He is co-editor of the World Happiness Report.
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British Born 1934 in the United Kingdom
About Richard Layard
Richard Layard was born in 1934 and is a British labor economist who has worked at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He is also co-editor of the World Happiness Report. His early career focused on reducing unemployment and inequality, and he served as Senior Research Officer for the Robbins Committee on Higher Education. Later he turned to the economics of happiness, the subject of his book Happiness. His mental health work, including The Depression Report of 2006, led to England's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) program.