LSE in print
PM rejects climate expert for top job
Financial Times, 30/11/2012, p.4, Pilita Clark; jim Pickard
where he worked on energy strategy. He was previously involved in infrastructure investment projects at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and has a PhD in economics from the LSE. The disclosure will heighten tensions between ministers and Whitehall. Relations are strained following a civil service reform plan that intended to sharpen the accountability of officials and included a
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c0276da6-3a3b-11e2-a32f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2Dh409sMe |
LSE online
Will you ever trust the media again? Join the debate
Channel 4 News (Web), 29/11/2012, Unattributed
prevent abuses which shocked the nation, such as what happened to the Dowlers? Be part of a new way of analysing an unfolding story - join Channel 4 News and the London School of Economics Media Policy Project in an online Google+ Hangout to get reaction and analysis on what this means for the future of the British media. Join the online
http://www.channel4.com/news/leveson-will-you-ever-trust-the-media-again|
UK landmark energy reforms cushion heavy industry
Reuters UK (Web), 29/11/2012, Unattributed
be taken off line over the next decade, and the cost of meeting future demand with low carbon generation could swell to 330 billion pounds by 2030, according to the London School of Economics. Last week, the government spelled out that the amount of taxpayers' money spent on low-carbon power generation would be capped at 7.6 billion pounds in real terms
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/11/29/britain-energy-cost-idUKL5E8MT37A20121129|
UK landmark energy reforms cushion heavy industry
Yahoo! UK and Ireland (Web), 29/11/2012, Unattributed
be taken off line over the next decade, and the cost of meeting future demand with low carbon generation could swell to 330 billion pounds by 2030, according to the London School of Economics. Last week, the government spelled out that the amount of taxpayers' money spent on low-carbon power generation would be capped at 7.6 billion pounds in real terms
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/uk-plans-low-carbon-energy-cost-breaks-industrials-000546932--finance.html|
LONDON LETTER: Lib Dems and Tories increasingly polarised on power ...
Irish Times
Figures from the London School of Economics show planners' attitudes vary in the UK. Eight in 10 of those put forward in Northern Ireland, for instance, get the go-ahead. Scotland – deemed friendliest by the renewable industry – approves 60 per cent ...http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2012/1130/1224327303065.html|
Risk of childhood obesity can be predicted at birth
New Scientist
"In extreme cases an inaccurate prediction could be harmful." And many of the environmental factors that influence the risk of obesity can change over a child's life, says health researcher Joan Costa-i-Font at the London School of Economics. These can ...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22557-risk-of-childhood-obesity-can-be-predicted-at-birth.html|
Ireland's president is an old Marxist. But what gives him the right to peddle his ideology in British universities?
Mail Online UK (Web), 30/11/2012, Unattributed
that Ireland’s answer to Tony Benn spoke at a British university. Last February, during his first foreign trip as Head of State, President Higgins gave a lecture at the London School of Economics (LSE). He used it to praise George Bernard Shaw’s brand of socialism and to denounce those great voices of liberty, Friedrich Von Hayek and Karl
http://dooleyblog.dailymail.co.uk/2012/11/irelands-president-is-an-old-marxist-but-what-gives-him-the-right-to-peddle-his-ideology-in-british-.html|
Spain's labour market needs fixing
Financial Times - Nov 29 at 12:43 GMT
cent hit by the financial and sovereign debt crises. Luis Garicano, professor of economics and strategy at the London School of Economics discusses with FT leader writer Ferdinando Giugliano what the government
http://video.ft.com/v/1996183797001/Spain-s-labour-market-needs-fixing|
Website Offers £15,000 For Students Willing To Have Sex With Strangers
Huffington Post UK - Lucy Sherriff - Nov 29 at 10:38 GMT
Whois shows the site was registered on 20 January 2012, under the name of an academic at the London School of Economics.The professor, whose identity HuffPost UK has agreed to withhold, has insisted he has...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/28/sponsor-a-scholar-students-fund-tuition-fee-through-sexs_n_2203303.html?utm_hp_ref=uk|
BARING EMERGING EUROPE PLC - Final Results
FinanzNachrichten.de - Nov 29 at 7:13 GMT
5 July 2004.Saul Estrin (60) is a Professor and Head of the Department of Management at the London School of Economics where he is a specialist on emerging markets. He was formerly a Professor at the London...
http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2012-11/25313849-baring-emerging-europe-plc-final-results-008.htm|
Let's not overdo it on accountability, governance professor tells Acevo conference
Third Sector
Anheier, who was Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics between 2001 and 2009, said the debate about the need for charities to be more accountable stretched back almost 20 years, but was now getting louder. "It is the 'audit society', ...
http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/news/1162310/lets-not-overdo-accountability-governance-professor-tells-acevo-conference/|
LSE on TV/radio
BBC 2 (29 Nov)
Daily Politics
Tony Travers is a guest on the programme to talk about North vs South.