An important new book that uses quantitative evidence to analyse the causes of subjective wellbeing.

Every day the newspapers lament the problems facing our children - broken homespressures to eat a...

Most people now realise that economic growth, however desirable, will not solve all our problems....

In this new edition of his landmark book, Richard Layard shows that there is a paradox at the hea...

Drawing on a range of evidence using large-scale data from various countries, the authors conside...

A ground-breaking argument for better treatment of mental health from Richard Layard (author of H...

There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become ric...

Richard Layard is one of Britain's foremost applied economists, whose work has had a profound imp...

Social scientists from various disciplines discuss and offer predictions about the future.