Guardian
Will this man make you happy?
The government's 'happiness tsar', Richard Layard, thinks he knows why we're all so miserable - we're overpaid, over-materialistic and lonely. But, he tells Stuart Jeffries, he has a plan to banish the blues in Britain, once and for all. Professor Layard runs the Well-Being project at LSE.
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/wellbeing/story/0,,2287146,00.html

Corrections and clarifications
A letter to the editor which we attributed only to Richard Rogers was co-written by Anne Power, professor of social policy at the London School of Economics and chief executive of the National Communities Resource Centre (Estate of the art, page 39, June 20).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/jun/24/4

Obituary - Bernard Llewellyn
Bernard Llewellyn, who has died aged 88, was an inspiring figure who played an important role during the early days of Oxfam. He was an LSE alumnus.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/jun/24/1

Financial Times
Short-term owners who leave the C-suite bitter
Richard Sennett, professor of sociology at the London School of Economics, suggests we need to update our classic view of the way markets, companies and their employees interact. ‘It's not capital versus labour any more,’ he says, ‘it's the operation of the firm versus the investment in the firm.’

In his research Prof Sennett has found that the priorities of managers and investors are growing further and further apart. There is a fundamental lack of understanding between them. They value different things. Their time horizons are completely different too.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/73110d3c-4185-11dd-9661-0000779fd2ac.html

Irish Times
Leaders' group photo provides a picture of what Taoiseach faces
A much more alarming scenario for the Government is that the high turnout could suggest Irish people are simply happy with how the EU operates at the moment and do not favour introducing changes to deepen integration. Some academic studies suggest the EU is working fine under the Nice Treaty despite recently enlarging to 27 members. Helen Wallace of the London School of Economics found there is no evidence of the ‘legislative gridlock’ that many observers feared when 10 new states joined the EU in 2004.
(Source: Lexis)

Late-edition headlines

Reuters
Sarkozy anti-WTO remarks seen as contradictory
London School of Economics professor Razeen Sally said that Europe would see ‘not a very significant reduction in production in the short-term’ from a WTO deal that opened up farm markets and created new opportunities for food exporters in developing countries such as Brazil and Argentina.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL2323500220080623
Also in
• Invertia, USA
Declaraciones de Sarkozy sobre OMC son contradictorias: expertos
http://usa.invertia.com/noticias/noticia.aspx?idNoticia=200806231814_RTI_1214244863nN23487374&idtel=

The Sunday Times (22 June)
Choirs are becoming cool
Yet the lung-filling, oxygen-pumping experience [of singing in a choir] is so good at producing a serotonin-fuelled buzz that the Labour peer, No 10 adviser and ‘happiness tsar’, Richard Layard, recommends joining one for the feel good factor alone. Professor Layard is emeritus professor of economics at LSE.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article4171061.ece

LSE people on TV/radio

BBC World
Focus on Africa (Saturday 14 June)
Chaloka Beyani, senior lecturer in law at LSE, appeared on the show discussing truth commissions.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/

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