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Thrive

Product Description: Britain has become a world leader in providing psychological therapies thanks to the work of Richard Layard and David Clark. But, even so, in Britain and worldwide the majority of people who need help still don't get treatment. This is both unjust and a false economy...read more

By Richard Layard

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9781846146053 | Gardners Books, July 3, 2014, cover price $31.70 | About this edition: Britain has become a world leader in providing psychological therapies thanks to the work of Richard Layard and David Clark.

Mind the Mind

By Richard Layard

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9781846145957 | Penguin Uk, April 24, 2014, cover price $23.15

Que nos depara el futuro / What the future has in store for us: Perspectivas Desde Las Ciencias Sociales / Social Sciences Perspective

Product Description: Predecir el futuro siempre es difÃcil. Pero su anÃ¡lisis sistemÃ¡tico nos permite comprender mejor el presente y el pasado y tomar decisiones mÃ¡s fundadas, prestando la necesaria atenciÃ³n a los principales indicadores de cambio...read more

By Richard Layard

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9788420637655 | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: Predecir el futuro siempre es difÃcil.

Happiness: Lessons from a New Science

Draws on a range of scientific research in such fields as psychology, sociology, and applied economics that reveals how everyday people are no happier than they were fifty years ago in spite of higher wages, in a study that seeks to define happiness while identifying its causes and the means that are available to everyday individuals to pursue and acquire happiness. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

By Richard Layard

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9780143037019 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, June 27, 2006), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Draws on a range of scientific research in such fields as psychology, sociology, and applied economics that reveals how everyday people are no happier than they were fifty years ago in spite of higher wages, in a study that seeks to define happiness while identifying its causes and the means that are available to everyday individuals to pursue and acquire happiness.

La Felicidad/happiness

By Richard Layard

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9789707702165 | Taurus, June 30, 2005, cover price $19.95

Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market

This broad survey of unemployment is a benchmark summary of the authors position which became hugely influential. This second edition brings the analysis up to date by relating it to recent empirical developments. This book is a major source of reference for both scholars and students.

By Richard Jackman, Richard Layard and Stephen Nickell

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Hardcover:

9780199279166 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 24, 2005, cover price $195.00

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9780199279173 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 24, 2005, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: This broad survey of unemployment is a benchmark summary of the authors position which became hugely influential.

9780198284345 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 5, 1991, cover price $65.00

Happiness: Lessons From The New Science

By P. R. G. Layard and Richard Layard

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9781594200397 | Penguin USA, January 27, 2005, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Draws on a range of scientific research in such fields as psychology, sociology, and applied economics in a study that seeks to define happiness while identifying its causes and the means that are available to everyday individuals to pursue and acquire happiness.

What the Future Holds: Insights from Social Science

Product Description: Predicting the future is notoriously difficult. But systematic analysis leads to clearer understanding and wiser decisions. Thinking about the future also makes social scientists focus their research into the past and present more fruitfully, with more attention to key predictors of change...read more

By Richard N. Cooper (editor) and Richard Layard (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780262032940 | Mit Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $45.00

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9780262532044 | Reprint edition (Mit Pr, April 1, 2003), cover price $4.75 | About this edition: Predicting the future is notoriously difficult.

Handbook of Labor Economics

By Richard Layard (editor)

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Miscellaneous:

9780080544182 | North-Holland, November 18, 1999, cover price $140.00

Tackling Inequality

Product Description: Richard Layard is one of Britain's foremost applied economists, whose work has had a profound impact on the policy debate in Britain and abroad. This book contains his most influential articles on education, equality and income distribution and on the lessons of economic transition in Eastern Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By P. R. G. Layard and Richard Layard

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9780312215767 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 19, 1999, cover price $215.00 | About this edition: Richard Layard is one of Britain's foremost applied economists, whose work has had a profound impact on the policy debate in Britain and abroad.

Emerging from Communism: Lessons from Russia, China, and Eastern Europe

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By Peter Boone (editor), Stanislaw Gomulka (editor), P. R. G. Layard (editor) and Richard Layard (editor)

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9780262024471 | Mit Pr, October 2, 1998, cover price $10.75

The Coming Russian Boom: A Guide to New Markets and Politics

Predicts that the Russian economy will grow at a rapid pace in the next few years and analyzes privatization in the country, the money supply, and the development of the Russian economy. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By P. R. G. Layard, Richard Layard and John Parker

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9780684827438 | Free Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Predicts that the Russian economy will grow at a rapid pace in the next few years and analyzes privatization in the country, the money supply, and the development of the Russian economy

Britain's Training Deficit: A Centre for Economic Performance Report

By P. R. G. Layard (editor), Richard Layard, Ken Mayhew and Geoffrey Owen (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781856288781 | Avebury, July 1, 1994, cover price $150.00

Cost-Benefit Analysis

This second edition covers all the main problems that arise in a typical cost-benefit exercise. It is entirely up to date, reflecting the most recent research in the area. Part One covers the main theoretical issues affecting cost-benefit analysis. Part Two considers the problem of ascribing a monetary value to things. The third part covers six separate case studies drawn from real-life examples. The book begins with an extended elementary introduction written by the editors. (view table of contents)

By Stephen Glaister (editor), P. R. G. Layard (editor) and Richard Layard

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Hardcover:

9780521461283 | 2 sub edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1994), cover price $78.99

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9780521466745 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1994), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: This second edition covers all the main problems that arise in a typical cost-benefit exercise.

The Unemployment Crisis

Product Description: The authors have fully revised and updated part of their 1991 book - "Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market" - to create a shorter, accessible undergraduate textbook on unemployment. The authors question the inevitability of present levels of unemployment in the Western world, and the view that a trade-off exists between price stability and unemployment levels...read more

By Richard Jackman, P. R. G. Layard, Richard Layard, S. J. Nickell and Stephen Nickell

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9780198773955 | Subsequent edition (Oxford Univ Pr, July 21, 1994), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The authors have fully revised and updated part of their 1991 book - "Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market" - to create a shorter, accessible undergraduate textbook on unemployment.

Paperback:

9780198773948 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 21, 1994, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: This fully revised and up-dated abridgement of the well-established 1991 book, Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market is now an entirely accessible textbook on unemployment.

Post-communist Reform: Pain and Progress

Product Description: In their earlier report, Reform in Eastern Europe, the WIDER group assessed the main building blocks of a successful transition in Eastern Europe: stabilization, price liberalization, privatization, and restructuring. For the last three years this group of leading economists has been heavily involved in the reform process...read more

By Richard Layard

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9780262519793 | Mit Pr, October 4, 1993, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In their earlier report, Reform in Eastern Europe, the WIDER group assessed the main building blocks of a successful transition in Eastern Europe: stabilization, price liberalization, privatization, and restructuring.

Postwar Economic Reconstruction and Lessons for the East Today

Product Description: The breakup of the Soviet Union and the consequent extraordinary problems faced by Eastern European nations raise pressing economic questions. The case studies in this book examine significant parallels between the situation in Eastern Europe today and the issues facing Europe and Japan after World War II, offering insights on what kinds of policy actions will be most effective in this difficult period of reconstruction...read more

By Rudiger Dornbusch, Richard Layard (editor) and Wilhelm Nolling

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9780262041362 | Mit Pr, March 22, 1993, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: The breakup of the Soviet Union and the consequent extraordinary problems faced by Eastern European nations raise pressing economic questions.

Reform in Eastern Europe

By Olivier J. Blanchard, Rudiger Dornbusch, Paul Krugman (contributor), Richard Layard and Lawrence H. Summers

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9780262521819 | Reprint edition (Mit Pr, January 29, 1993), cover price $16.00

East-West Migration: The Alternatives

Product Description: This sequel to Reform in Eastern Europe is a report on one of the most pressing issues for countries with economies in transition and their neighbors. Focusing on the problem of East-West migration, the authors clearly delineate and promote the notion of European free trade and capital flows as a means of raising productivity and increasing worker stability in the East and of reducing income gaps between countries...read more

By Olivier Blanchard and Richard Layard

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9780262121682 | Mit Pr, October 1, 1992, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: This sequel to Reform in Eastern Europe is a report on one of the most pressing issues for countries with economies in transition and their neighbors.

Paperback:

9780262620925 | Reprint edition (Mit Pr, August 1, 1994), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: This sequel to Reform in Eastern Europe is a report on one of the most pressing issues for countries with economies in transition and their neighbors.

The Fight Against Unemployment: Macroeconomic Analysis from the Centre for European Policy Studies

Product Description: This second CEPS annual addresses the crucial problem of persistent high unemployment in Europe, despite recent years of economic recovery. Recurring themes in the discussion of possible solutions are the relative importance of aggregate demand, labor-market flexibility, capital formation, and the organization of work-time in order to achieve work-sharing...read more

By Lars Calmfors (editor) and Richard Layard

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9780262121224 | Mit Pr, November 1, 1987, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This second CEPS annual addresses the crucial problem of persistent high unemployment in Europe, despite recent years of economic recovery.

How to Beat Unemployment

Product Description: In this study, a leading expert sheds light on the reasons for high unemployment in Britain and various ways it can be reduced. Analyzing the roots of unemployment in the first half of the book, Layard provides a definitive statement of the modern theory of unemployment and presents a mass of evidence about what causes unemployment in Britain...read more

By Richard Layard

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9780198772651 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1986, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In this study, a leading expert sheds light on the reasons for high unemployment in Britain and various ways it can be reduced.

Restoring Europe's Prosperity: Macroeconomic Papers from the Centre for European Policy Studies

By Olivier Jean Blanchard (editor), Rudiger Dornbusch (editor) and Richard Layard (editor)

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9780262523943 | Mit Pr, February 13, 1986, cover price $26.00

Restoring Europe's Prosperity: Macroeconomic Papers from the Centre for European Policy Studies

By Olivier Blanchard, Rudiger Dornbusch and Richard Layard (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780262022491 | 1st mit pr edition (Mit Pr, February 1, 1986), cover price $28.00

Microeconomic Theory

Product Description: Authors, P.R. G. Layard, of The London School of Economics and A.A. Walters, the Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland " have concentrated on those parts of economic theory which are not regularly used in trying to solve rea-world problems...read more

By Richard Layard and A. A. Walters

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9780070367869 | McGraw-Hill College, January 1, 1978, cover price $83.80 | About this edition: Authors, P.

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