LSE in print
Triple fumble from a safe pair of hands
The Sunday Times, 16/12/2012, p.25, Maria Miller
Profile of LSE alumnus Maria Miller MP: “….in the outskirts of Wolverhampton in 1964, she was brought up in the more salubrious Bridgend, south Wales, where she attended the local Brynteg comprehensive. She read economics at the London School of Economics, graduating in 1985. She took her first job as an executive for Grey, moved on to marketing for Texaco…”
I got a taste for business at school
The Sunday Times, 16/12/2012, p.8, Ali Hussain
Born in Bangladesh, Wahhab moved to the UK when he was eight months old after his father received a scholarship to study at University College London. Wahhab graduated from the London School of Economics and began his career as a journalist, during which time he covered general news at a handful of national titles, before moving on to public relations.
World Diary
Financial Times, 17/12/2012, p.28, Bob Dyson
both the Consumer Prices Index and the Retail Prices Index (RPI) for November. China under microscope Former World Bank chief economist Justin Yifu Lin will give a lecture at the London School of Economics on "Demystifying the Chinese Economy" reflecting on China's unprecedented growth over the past 32 years. Budgets and Brussels The European Parliament committee on budgets is meeting
Adam Ingram
The Sunday Times, 16/12/2012, p.2
Apology to Adam Ingram, "… reported that Mr Ingram had been non-executive chairman of a company which had paid £100,000 to Saif al-Islam Gadaffi's foundation for a proposed donation to the London School of Economics. In an agreed statement read out in open court on June 28 this year, Mr Ingram's solicitor said that the article in substance alleged that Mr Ingram was responsible for making a secret £100,000 payment as a bribe…”
Maria Miller The humble minister who's headline news
The Observer, 16/12/2012, p.30, Andrew Gimson
way in the world. Miller was born in Wolverhampton, but grew up at Bridgend, in South Wales, where she attended Brynteg comprehensive school, after which she read economics at the London School of Economics. She is not some glamorous creature who got parachuted in to a safe seat without first working her passage. She has belonged to the Tory party
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/dec/16/profile-maria-miller|
Three cheers for GDP as a measure of our well-being
The Independent On Sunday, 16/12/2012, p.88, Unattributed
“It comes in the magazine CentrePiece, which pulls together research at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. In "Hooray for GDP", Nicholas Oulton argues that it retains its usefulness as a measure of output and an indicator of human welfare.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/hamish-mcrae/hamish
-mcrae-so-what-exactly-are-central-banks-for-8420081.html|
Love on the lines
Evening Standard, 14/12/2012, p.38, Rosamund Urwin
“Also often seems to be full of students on a night out (the LSE is at Temple, Imperial at South Ken). DLR: As well as carrying bankers to Canary Wharf and jet-setters to City airport…”
http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/love-on-the-lines-8414018.html|
Fagin FROM OLIVER!
Daily Express, 15/12/2012, p.20, Peter Robertson
Ron, 88, lives with his wife Terese and their six children in Southgate, north London. "I didn't break into showbiz until I was 29. I went straight from the London School of Economics, where I was doing a postgraduate degree, into a show in London's West End. "One of the frst films I did was Summer Holiday with
LSE online
Freeze council tax or face defeat at the polls, Pickles warns town hall leaders
The Times Online, 15/12/2012
Libraries and youth services have already closed, charity grants have been reduced or scrapped and councils have lost more than 260,000 jobs. Tony Travers, of the London School of Economics, said local government was under far more pressure than any other part of the public sector. Spending has been cut disproportionately, much more than the NHS,
The Queen finds out why we're all so hard up
Daily Express (Web), 14/12/2012, David Pilditch
She had first posed the question about the global collapse at the London School of Economics when she had asked: Why did nobody notice it? She went on to describe the crisis as awful. Yesterday Mr Kapadia said afterwards: It was a real
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/364623/The-Queen-finds-out-why-we-re-all-
so-hard-up|
Landmark climate change report leaked online
guardian.co.uk (Web), 14/12/2012, Leo Hickman
change] draft chapters may still change in the final versions, following review comments." Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at London School of Economics and Political Science, said that Rawls appeared to have broken the confidentiality agreement signed by reviewers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/dec/14/ipcc-climate-change-report-
leaked-online|
Bid to heap blame on sunspots for climate change has backfired
The Independent (Web), 14/12/2012, Unattributed
and there is nothing in the draft IPCC report leaked today that suggests the contrary," Professor Le Quere said. Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics, another IPCC reviewer, said that Rawls has tried to misrepresent the IPCC by cherry picking quotes out of context to support the idea that solar activity
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/bid-to-heap-blame-on-sunspots-for-climate-change-has-backfired-8418195.html|
Queen's financial question answered
Evening Standard (Web), 14/12/2012, Unattributed
In November 2008, at the height of the global downturn, the Queen had asked academics at the London School of Economics: "Why did nobody notice it?" and described the crisis as "awful".
http://www.standard.co.uk/panewsfeeds/queens-financial-question-answered-8414632.html|
Auch die Ökonomie ist eine moralische Wissenschaft
Die Welt - Dec 17 at 5:23 GMT
aus einer jüdischen Familie stammend, musste Hirschmann 1933 vor den Nazis fliehen, studierte in Paris und an der London School of Economics und promovierte in Triest über französische Außenhandelspolitik...
http://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/kultur/article112057488/Auch-die-Oekonomie-
ist-eine-moralische-Wissenschaft.html|
Language proficiency required for UK study
CNTV - Qin Xue - Dec 17 at 4:18 GMT
the number of interviews to considerably more than 100,000, starting next financial year."Students at the London School of Economics say it’ll make it much tougher to gain a study place:Omar, student from...
http://english.cntv.cn/program/china24/20121217/102847.shtml|
Drottningen fick svar – efter fyra år
SvD - SvD Näringsliv - Dec 16 at 12:05 GMT
svar på sin fråga om varför ingen hade kunnat förutse finanskrisen tidigare. Hon ställde frågan till akademiker vid London School of Economics 2008. Först nu – fyra år senare – var det till slut en av Bank...
http://www.svd.se/naringsliv/nyheter/varlden/drottning-elisabeth-ii-fick-svar-efter
-fyra-ar_7756548.svd|
Un mercado transparente al servicio de los ciudadanos
El País - Luis Garicano - Dec 16 at 11:35 GMT
de que les están tomando el pelo. JLuis Garicano es catedrático de Economía y Estrategia de la London School of Economics.
http://economia.elpais.com/economia/2012/12/14/actualidad/1355485876_
608289.html|
Što predviđaju ugledni proroci: 2013. počinje klasni rat, gospodarstvo zastaje...
iPress.hr - ipress@ipress.hr () - Dec 16 at 10:26 GMT
ruskih imigranata koji se prometnuo u jednog od najutjecajnih ekonomskih mislilaca SAD-a. Profesor je na sveučilištima Princeton i London School of Economics, čije kolumne iz New York Timesa redovito prenose...
http://ipress.hr/svijet/sto-predvidaju-ugledni-proroci-2013-pocinje-klasni-rat-gospodarstvo-zastaje-25307.html|
What’s next, China?
Jakarta Post - Dec 16 at 9:51 GMT
to settle the issue in the recent summit in Phnom Penh. The Jakarta Post discussed the issue with London School of Economics historian Odd Arne Westad and asked whether China’s peaceful rise would last. Question:...
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/12/16/what-s-next-china.html|
La Biblia, ¿politeísta?
Bolpress - Dec 16 at 3:36 GMT
multitudinariamente en numerosas excavaciones en construcciones de épocas bíblicas. Isaac Bigio es un analista internacional formado en la London School of Economics & Political Sciences. En ésta, considerada...
http://www.bolpress.com/art.php?Cod=2012121509|
Why women may be better leaders than men
Psychology Today - Dec 15 at 21:46 GMT
higher for female entrepreneurs than male entrepreneurs. And according to a separate study by Babson College and the London School of Economics, women-led start-ups experienced fewer failures in moving from...
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201212/why-women-may-be-better-leaders-men|
La reine d'Angleterre délivre une leçon
Yahoo! France - Dec 15 at 21:24 GMT
une vieille critique de la reine formulée plus de quatre ans auparavant. Lors d'un discours à la London School of Economics en 2008, celle-ci n'avait en effet pas hésité à demander des comptes aux autorités...
http://fr.news.yahoo.com/reine-dangleterre-délivre-leçon-déconomie-régulateurs-174200276.html|
'Extremely likely' humans cause global warming, leaked UN draft study reports
Arizona Daily Star - Dec 15 at 7:32 GMT
" Bob Ward, policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, said in a phone interview. "The evidence is now more robust." More...
http://azstarnet.com/news/science/extremely-likely-humans-cause-global-warming-leaked-un-draft-study/article_65ef853d-7833-5bcf-ad28-866cf5fa6930.html|
Albert O. Hirschman, influential social scientist, dies at 97
Washington Post - Emily Langer, Dec 14, 2012 08:06 PM EST The Washington Post - Dec 14 at 20:14 GMT
to power as German chancellor. Dr. Hirschman left to pursue studies first in France and then at the London School of Economics. At the start of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, he put his education on hold to...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/albert-o-hirschman-influential-social
-scientist-dies-at-97/2012/12/14/e0a3b86c-4474-11e2-8e70-e1993528222d_
story.html|
UN Leak Shows More Evidence Humans Cause Global Warming
Bloomberg - Alex Morales - Dec 14 at 19:58 GMT
warming,” Bob Ward, policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, said in a phone interview. “The evidence is now more robust.” A...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-14/un-leak-shows-more-evidence
-humans-cause-global-warming.html|
La leçon d'économie d'Élisabeth II
Le Point - Dec 14 at 18:24 GMT
une vieille critique de la reine formulée plus de quatre ans auparavant. Lors d'un discours à la London School of Economics en 2008, celle-ci n'avait en effet pas hésité à demander des comptes aux autorités...
http://www.lepoint.fr/economie/la-reine-d-angleterre-delivre-une-lecon-d-
economie-aux-regulateurs-14-12-2012-1581464_28.php|
Bob Ward: Desperate Shenanigans as Climate Change 'Sceptics' Try to Misrepresent Report
Huffington Post UK - Bob Ward - Dec 14 at 18:02 GMT
Ward is policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at London School of Economics and Political Science.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/bob-ward/desperate-shenanigans-climate-change-sceptics_b_2299176.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-politics?ncid=GEP|
Ex-SFO lawyer's fall from grace
New Zealand Herald - Dec 14 at 16:35 GMT
s tight legal fraternity, watching the terrible fall of the young alumna of the Harvard Business School, the London School of Economics and the Institute for Strategic Leadership (NZ)."It's a bloody shame...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/anne-gibson/news/article.cfm?a_id=39&objectid=10854173&ref=rss|
Endelig fikk dronningen svar
Aftenposten - Dec 14 at 12:27 GMT
hvorfor de ikke oppdaget finanskrisen. Da den globale finanskrisen brøt ut i 2008, spurte dronning Elizabeth økonomene ved London School of Economics om hvorfor ingen oppdaget finanskrisen før det var for...
http://www.aftenposten.no/okonomi/Endelig-fikk-dronningen-svar-7070065.html|
Lezioni di finanza della Regina Elisabetta La crisi?: "C'è stata un po' di trascuratezza"
La Repubblica - repubblicawww@repubblica.it - Dec 14 at 12:14 GMT
rivolto al Sua Maestà, dicendo che avrebbe voluto rispondere a una domanda posta dalla regina agli accademici della London School of Economics nel 2008, sul perché nessuno aveva previsto l’arrivo della crisi...
http://www.repubblica.it/economia/finanza/2012/12/14/news/lezioni_di_finanza
_della_regina_elisabetta_la_crisi_c_stata_un_po_di_trascuratezza-48730350/?rss|
Quand Sa Majest la Reine donne des leons d'conomie
La Tribune - Romaric Godin - Dec 14 at 11:40 GMT
visiteurs. Au début de la visite, il a rappelé à Sa Majesté son discours de 2008 à la London School of Economics. Un discours où elle demandait des comptes aux économistes sur la crise financière et où elle...
http://www.repubblica.it/economia/finanza/2012/12/14/news/lezioni_di_finanza
_della_regina_elisabetta_la_crisi_c_stata_un_po_di_trascuratezza-48730350/?rss|
Nu ved dronningen endelig, hvorfor finanskrisen kom
Business.dk - Dec 14 at 8:27 GMT
udspring. Det skriver den britiske avis The Guardian. Da finanskrisen toppede i 2008, spurgte dronning Elizabeth økonomerne på London School of Economics om, hvorfor ingen opdagede den forfærdelige finanskrise...
http://www.business.dk/global/nu-ved-dronningen-endelig-hvorfor-finanskrisen
-kom|
Britain's Queen Quizzes Central Bank on Financial Crisis
CNBC - Dec 14 at 8:19 GMT
86-year-old monarch has shown an interest in financial affairs. Four years ago, the Queen asked academics at the London School of Economics, "Why did nobody notice it?"
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100313755|
LSE on TV/radio
BBC Radio 4 (16 Dec)
Charles Goodhart comments on the history of the Bank of England.
Sky News (13 Dec)
Sky News at 10
Coverage of the Queen’s visit to LSE four years ago.
Also on:
ITV1
Morning News
Australia Network 10 News (13 Dec)
Charlie Beckett comments on the suicide and prank phone call at King Edward VII hospital.
BBC 94.9FM (14 Dec)
News
Tony Travers comments on immigration in London
BBC World Service Radio (15 Dec)
Peter Boone of CEP discusses the economic situation in Europe and beyond.
City Talk FM Liverpool (15 Dec)
An alumnus of LSE mentions attending the School.