In this issue:

01 FROM THE PRESIDENT A Letter from RES President Sir Christopher Pissarides

02 LETTER FROM AMERICA Daron Acemoglu examines six potential explanations for the mental health crisis

06 INCLUSIVE GROWTH A summary of Dame Rachel Griffith’s 2022 Prais Lecture at NIESR, on inclusive growth

08 THE PROFILE We put our questions to Labour peer Lord Layard, an expert on wellbeing research

10 MIXED OLIGOPOLY Joanna Poyago-Theotoky writes about the study of markets where competing enterprises have different motives, and how this literature continues to develop

12 CLOSING THE GAP Ercio Muñoz, Melanie Saavedra, and Dario Sansone discuss Latin America’s progress towards LGBTQ+ equality and inclusion

14 FREE AND EQUAL Economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler answers our questions on the Rawlsian approach to public policy

18 POLITICAL LANGUAGE How machine learning can be used to infer ideological leanings in economic research

20 WOMEN’S COMMITTEE Kiran Krishna writes about the recent work of UK WEN

22 JAMES MEADE Susan Howson describes the long career of the Nobel laureate and reform advocate James Meade

25 NEWS AND EVENTS Extended coverage of recent news and events in the world of economics and the Society