LSE in print
Is London the new New York?
The Times, 07/12/2012, p.3, Richard Morrison
days. But at least he and Boris Johnson dropped in on London's frightfully hip Hoxton Square yesterday for the Urban Age Electric City conference. Run by Deutsche Bank and the London School of Economics, it's a two-day talking shop for 300 green-minded scientists, politicians and architects, with an array of speakers that includes former mayors from Washington DC, Bogotá and
Pakistan’s economy: Plugging leaks, poking holes
The Economist (Web), 06/12/2012, Unattributed
Poetry and taxes do not often mix. But those melancholy lines grace an analysis of Pakistan’s fiscal plight by Ehtisham Ahmad of the London School of Economics. The country’s tax revenues have collapsed. Its debt is almost certainly unsustainable without outside help. And yet Pakistan does not pull together. “Textile lobbies, the urban gentry, traders and agriculturists, all point to the other and say: Tax that group first, but do not tax me,” Mr Ahmad writes.
http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21567999-who-will-pay-pakistans-state
-plugging-leaks-poking-holes?fsrc=rss|asi|
LSE online
The Queen could teach Mr Gove a lot about culture
The Times Online, 07/12/2012, p.1, Unattributed
days. But at least he and Boris Johnson dropped in on London’s frightfully hip Hoxton Square yesterday for the Urban Age Electric City conference. Run by Deutsche Bank and the London School of Economics, it’s a two-day talking shop for 300 green-minded scientists, politicians and architects, with an array of speakers that includes former mayors from Washington DC, Bogotá and
Electric City 2012: graphic highlights from LSE's conference on the urban age
guardian.co.uk (Web), 06/12/2012, John Burnmurdoch
exclusive access to some of the data visualisations on display at the event• Electric City, the 2012 edition of LSE Cities' conference series, takes place today and tomorrow at the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society. This year's event is focusing on the different ways in which urban societies across the globe are being influenced by technological
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/dec/06/lse-electric-city-urban-society-mapping-graphics-london|
Doha climate conference diary: Monckton v camel
guardian.co.uk (Web), 06/12/2012, John Vidal
body of international MPs, show 32 of 33 major economies have now put in place national laws to reduce emissions. The study, undertaken with the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics, will be published next month in London, and finds much of the current legislative activity on climate change now taking place in developing countries, including China. Overall
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/dec/06/doha-climate-conference-diary-lord-monckton-camel|
'Dysfunctional' council slammed
BBC (Web), 06/12/2012, Unattributed
mixed views to Prof Jones's analysis. After being shown the webcast by BBC South East Today of the last full council meeting in September, Prof Jones, who lectures at the London School of Economics and Political Science, said it was "clearly dysfunctional". "It's a tremendously important meeting, but it bores the pants off most of the public who see no
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-20625019#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa|
Brasilia: Does it work as a city?
BBC (Web), 07/12/2012, Unattributed
what's it like to live in Brasilia? "The problem with Brasilia as with anything new is that it has some weaknesses," says Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics. "The problem is that it's not a city. It's that simple. The issue is not whether it's a good city or a bad city. It's just
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20632277|
£50million to create institute in Tech City
London 24 - Dec 6 at 11:02 GMT
Plans for the development were launched at the Urban Age Conference, organised by the LSE Cities at the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Society, and supported by the Mayor...
http://www.london24.com/news/50million_to_create_institute_in_tech_city_1
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Manhattan Moment: Pushing antibiotics off of their own 'fiscal cliff'
Washington Examiner - Dec 7 at 6:07 GMT
the present value of antibiotics far below those of other classes of drugs, according to estimates by the London School of Economics. What makes the FDA's hesitance even more perplexing is that in response...
http://washingtonexaminer.com/manhattan-moment-pushing-antibiotics-off-of-
their-own-fiscal-cliff/article/2515256?custom_click=rss|
¿Hay que saber matemáticas para tener ideas brillantes? (translate)
El Confidencial - Dec 7 at 5:07 GMT
datos y montar argumentos válidos a su alrededor. Decía Luis Garicano, catedrático de Economía y Estrategia en la London School of Economics, en un reciente artículo en El País que los tres fundamentos clave...
http://www.elconfidencial.com/alma-corazon-vida/blogs/pase-sin-llamar/2012
/12/07/de-verdad-hay-que-saber-matematicas-para-tener-ideas-brillantes-110625/|
Oscar Niemeyer the Brazilian architect who died this week will be best remembered for Brasilia, the city he helped design in the late 1950s. Niemeyer's modernist architecture made Brazil's federal capital a Unesco World Heritage site in 1987. But does it
London Wired - Dec 7 at 4:25 GMT
anything new is that it has some weaknesses," says Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics. "The problem is that it's not a city. It's that simple. The issue is not whether...
http://www.londonwired.co.uk/news.php/1468456-Niemeyers-Brasilia-Does
-it-work-as-a-city|
Lone German Keynesian Advocates Pooling Euro Debt
BusinessWeek - Jeremy Kahn - Dec 6 at 23:21 GMT
collective responsibility that such a solution would entail, according to Henning Meyer, a senior visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and an adviser to the Social Democrats. “Germany has been...
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-12-06/lone-german-keynesian-
advocates-pooling-euro-debt|
Stark warning on Syrian chemical weapons
Financial Times - Geoff Dyer - Dec 6 at 23:14 GMT
ideology. They are fighting the regime; they are defending the Syrian people.” However, Fawaz Gerges, director of the London School of Economics’ Middle East Centre, said that while Jabhat al-Nusra’s military...
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fcbde700-3fcb-11e2-b0ce-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2ELvu2Yta|
A Dream In Tartan Tatters?
Huffington Post UK - Dec 6 at 16:59 GMT
Paul Preston, Professor in International History at the LSE, told the Huffington Post UK: "On the basis of the venom towards Catalonia emanating from Madrid, it is reasonable to suppose that Spain would not vote in favour of Scotland as a way of sending a message to the Catalan independence movement."
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/12/06/scottish-independence-eu-
accession-veto-spain_n_2249473.html?ncid=GEP|
Too smart for our own good
Canberra Times - Richard Sennett - Dec 6 at 16:19 GMT
shifts, uncertainties and mess that are real life.Guardian Richard Sennett is a professor of sociology at the London School of Economics.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/opinion/too-smart-for-our-own-good-20121206-2ay4z.html|
Transparency rank gives Dhaka food for thought
China Post - Dec 7 at 6:49 GMT
the Department of Statistics and Political Science of Columbia University, the Methodology Institute and Department of Government of London School of Economics & Political Science, the European Commission...
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/commentary/the-china-post/special-to-the-china-post/2012/12/07/363349/Transparency-rank.htm|
LSE on TV/radio
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Dr Ian Roxen discussed Starbucks tax affairs.
BBC Guernsey (6 December 2012)
Reference to Professor Lord Nicholas Stern’s report on climate change.