2025-06-20
59 分钟Welcome to the LSE events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the LSE for this event, which is part of the LSE.
Festival Visions for the Future.
The festival has been going on all week.
There's still many events today and there is going to be a lot of events also tomorrow.
So do check out the program if you haven't already done so.
So this year's festival is about threats and opportunities in the near and distant future and how a better world could look like.
And this event particularly is about well-being and supporting mental health as a key to building a better world.
My name is Christian Krakl.
I'm an assistant professor in behavioral science here at the LSE.
I'm a member of the Center for Economic Performance.
at the LSE as well as the Department of Psychological and Behavioral Science.
And I'm very happy today to be sitting here and discussing putting well-being and mental health at the heart of progress with Professor Lord Richard Layard,
Professor Martinet, and Dr. Laura Taylor.
Richard here is Professor Emeritus in Economics at the LSE,
and he is the founding director of the Center for Economic Performance.
He's also the program co-director of the community well-being program at the CEP.
And in his long academic career, he has written a lot of very interesting papers, was very prolific.
He's written many books, six amongst which is Happiness.