Richard Layard in Podcasts
personRichard Layard is a British economist and labor peer, known for his work on happiness and well-being in public policy.
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We've got Richard Layard, Lord Layard is coming up on a future episode of Radical, and we want your questions. Richard, I'm going to call him Richard, I mean, we're not on first name terms, but we soon will be. Richard, or Lord Layard, is an economist, he's a labour peer, and he is one of the world's leading experts on happiness. And I think he would say that his radical idea, which he's championed for decades, is that public policy should be targeted above all at the well-being of the people. He thinks the emphasis, the priority should be shifted to