失业政策：欧洲的经验和教训(讲座)

　　演讲人：Lord Layard of Highgate(英国上议院议员、伦敦经济学院教授)

　　主持人：林毅夫(北京大学中国经济研究中心主任)

　　时间：2005年4月20日(周三)上午10: 45-12:15

　　地点：北京大学中国经济研究中心致福轩

　　工作语言：英文

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　　莱亚德议员(Lord Layard of Highgate)简介：

　　英国国会上议院议员(2000年至今)，上议院负责经济、金融、贸易和对外关系的委员会委员。英国伦敦经济学院(LSE)经济系荣誉退休教授，伦敦经济学院经济绩效研究中心(CEP)的创始人，并曾担任该中心主任13年，目前仍担任该中心福利项目主任，该中心涵盖了各个经济领域的研究。

　　Layard议员的主要研究领域是劳动力市场、失业政策、教育政策、福利政策等。他发表了大量关于失业、通过膨胀、教育、公平以及社会主义国家改革方面的文章。他于1985年建立了就业协会以促使政府采取防止长期失业的行动，并于1987年至1992年担任该协会主席。1997年至2001年担任英国工党政府的顾问，帮助实施了很多就业政策。1991年至1997年曾担任俄罗斯政府经济顾问。

　　cep.lse.ac.uk/layard/

　　Unemployment policy: lessons from European experiences

　　Speaker: Professor Lord Layard

　　Member of the House of Lords, Emeritus Professor of Economics, L.S.E.

　　Host: Professor Justin Yifu Lin

　　Director of the China Center for Economic Research at PKU

　　Time: April 20, 2005 10:45am - 12:15am

　　Venue: Zhi Fu Xuan, CCER

　　Working Language: English

　　Biography of Professor Lord Layard (Peter Richard Grenville Layard)

　　Richard Layard was founder-director of the LSE Centre for Economic Perfomance, a large research centre covering most areas of economic policy. Since 2000 he has been a member of the House of Lords.

　　He has written widely on unemployment, inflation, education, inequality and post-Communist reform. He was an early advocate of the welfare-to-work approach to unemployment, and co-authored the influential book Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market (OUP 1991).

　　From 1997-2001 he helped implement these policies as a consultant to the Labour government. He was also involved in the educational policy development of post-16 year olds.

　　Current research interests

　　His current focus is on happiness, aiming to achieve a unified understanding of the insights of economics, psychology, neuroscience and philosophy. He is writing a book, developing out of his recent Robbins Lectures on the subject. He also has strong interests in unemployment and educational policy.

　　Further information:

　　He founded the Employment Institute in 1985 to press for action to prevent long-term unemployment and was its Chairman from 1987-92. After Labour came to power, he was from 1997-2001 a government consultant on policies towards unemployment (including the New Deal) and towards skills.

　　He was Chairman of the European Commission's Macroeconomic Policypuorgin the 1980s and then co-Chairman of the World Economypuorgset up by WIDER. From 1991-97 he was an economic adviser to the Russian government's economic staff.

　　He has been on the staff of LSE since 1964. Before that he taught in a comprehensive school and was the Senior Research Officer for the Robbins Committee on Higher Education.