失業政策：歐洲的經驗和教訓(講座)

　　演講人：Lord Layard of Highgate(英國上議院議員、倫敦經濟學院教授)

　　主持人：林毅夫(北京大學中國經濟研究中心主任)

　　時間：2005年4月20日(周三)上午10: 45-12:15

　　地點：北京大學中國經濟研究中心致福軒

　　工作語言：英文

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　　萊亞德議員(Lord Layard of Highgate)簡介：

　　英國國會上議院議員(2000年至今)，上議院負責經濟、金融、貿易和對外關系的委員會委員。英國倫敦經濟學院(LSE)經濟系榮譽退休教授，倫敦經濟學院經濟績效研究中心(CEP)的創始人，并曾擔任該中心主任13年，目前仍擔任該中心福利項目主任，該中心涵蓋了各個經濟領域的研究。

　　Layard議員的主要研究領域是勞動力市場、失業政策、教育政策、福利政策等。他發表了大量關于失業、通過膨脹、教育、公平以及社會主義國家改革方面的文章。他于1985年建立了就業協會以促使政府采取防止長期失業的行動，并于1987年至1992年擔任該協會主席。1997年至2001年擔任英國工黨政府的顧問，幫助實施了很多就業政策。1991年至1997年曾擔任俄羅斯政府經濟顧問。

　　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.