# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-layard-baron-layard
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:56:35.230Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-layard-baron-layard"
name: "Richard Layard, Baron Layard"
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description: "Peter Richard Grenville Layard, Baron Layard FBA is a British labour economist, co-director of the Community Wellbeing programme at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, and co-editor of the World Happiness Report. Layard is an economist who wants public policy to be targeted at the wellbeing of the people. To this end he has written 6 books and some 40 articles."
tagline: "British economist (born 1934)"
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birthDate: "1934-03-15"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump