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Harvard Book Store Presents...
Penguin Press
Price: $25.95
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RICHARD LAYARD discusses Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, with Robert Merton Solow
Harvard Book Store is excited to announce that on Friday, February 11th Richard Layard will be in conversation with Robert Merton Solow about his new book Happiness: Lessons from a New Science.
There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become richer, they do not become happier. The central question the great economist Richard Layard asks in Happiness is this: if we really wanted to be happier, what would we do differently? First we'd have to see clearly what conditions generate happiness and then bend all our efforts toward producing them. That is what this book is about—the causes of happiness and the means we have to effect it.
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617.661.1515
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Friday, February 11th |
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3:00 PM |
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Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle Street
Cambridge |
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This event is free; no tickets are required |
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Richard Layard is one of Britain's best-known economists and a leading world expert on unemployment and inequality. He runs Europe's leading economics research center, within the London School of Economics. He worked for the British government as an economic adviser from 1997 to 2001, and in 2000 he became a member of the House of Lords. He is the author of a number of academic books.
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Robert Merton Solow is an American economist particularly known for his work on the theory of economic growth. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 1961 and the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1987. He has held positions at Columbia University and MIT.
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