Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Layard, Baron Layard

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British economist Richard Layard, Baron Layard.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Peter Richard Grenville Layard, Baron Layard FBA is a British labour economist, currently working as programme director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.

British - Economist | Born: March 15, 1934

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Competition for status is a zero sum game

Richard Layard, Baron Layard

No society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights.

Richard Layard, Baron Layard

There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have got richer, their people have become no happier.

Richard Layard, Baron Layard

People who achieve a sense of meaning in their lives are happier than those who live from one pleasure to another.

Richard Layard, Baron Layard

Kindness is like mercy: it blesses him that gives and him that takes.

Richard Layard, Baron Layard

Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining his deep knowledge of politics with the new findings of happiness research.

Richard Layard, Baron Layard

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Layard, Baron Layard

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