Richard Layard is emeritus professor of economics at the London School of Economics. When well-being provision has so many benefits, why don't more employers invest in it?

The party’s focus on tuition fees neglects half of young people – and its past success with apprenticeships. British literacy levels are low, but innumeracy is what really holds us back. ByRichard ...

Layard's visit, in 1840, to Syria, Asia Minor, Babylon and Assyria. Differences in the ruins described. Dangers in traveling through the area. Layard's visit to area made him desire to investigate the ...

LSE Professor of Economics Richard Layard founded the Wellbeing Programme at the LSE Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) in 2001. The Programme’s main aims were to promote subjective happiness and ...

The design of practical, cost-effective policies to improve wellbeing can then follow. Both separately and in collaboration at LSE, professors Richard Layard and Paul Dolan have been at the forefront ...

In St Margaret's Church Westminster is a memorial tablet to archaeologist and politician Sir Henry Austen Layard. The rectangular tablet on the south wall has a moulded marble frame and a decorative ...

As the minister in charge of public works, Austin Layard, put it: "The government has to decide upon the erection of a large number of important public buildings than had ever been raised in any ...