失业政策：欧洲的经验和教训
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
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。
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 Policy Group in the 1980s and then co-Chairman of the World Economy Group set 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.
