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SUMMARY:Clare Hall Ashby Lecture:  'Happiness and Values' - Professor Rich
 ard Layard
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DESCRIPTION:Excessive individualism helps to explain why happiness has not
  risen in the last 50 years.  If the goal is to out-compete others\, it is
  a zero-sum game\, and further increases in happiness require positive-sum
  games.  Fortunately there exist evidence-based ways in which to promote a
 ltruism among children and young people.  If we are to achieve progress\, 
 the education of character should become a central role for schools. \n\n-
 -\n\nProfessor Richard Layard\n\nRichard Layard is Emeritus Professor of E
 conomics at the London School of Economics\, where he was until recently t
 he founder-director of the Centre for Economic Performance.  He now heads 
 the Centre’s Programme on Well-Being.  Since 2000 he has been a member o
 f the House of Lords.\n\nHe has worked on unemployment\, inflation\, educa
 tion\, inequality\, and post-Communist reform. He was an early advocate of
  the welfare-to-work approach to European unemployment\, and co-authored U
 nemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market (OUP 1991\, 2
 nd ed 2005) which has influenced policy in many countries. He has chaired 
 the European Commission’s Macroeconomic Policy Group and the UN Universi
 ty’s World Economy Group. \n\nHe is currently working on happiness and h
 ow to produce a happier society. His book Happiness – Lessons from a New
  Science was published in March and is appearing in 11 languages.\n\n
LOCATION:Robinson College Auditorium
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