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Tougher security and better policing cuts crime by half
The Times, 19/10/2012, p.9, Richard Ford
in homes has reduced the number of crimes in two areas that made up a large proportion of overall offending, according to criminologists. Tim Newburn, Professor of Criminology at the London School of Economics, said: "Crime prevention features, improved policing and more surveillance have helped. I think surveillance overall has had an effect." The fall in crime may also be
The 20th-Century Idea Warriors
The Wall Street Journal (Europe), 19/10/2012, p.11, Dalibor Rohac
public and academic opinion, pro-market economists were not quite as rare and isolated in the early 1930s as Keynes might have hoped. Friedrich Hayek joined the economics department at the London School of Economics in 1931. At the time the department was chaired by Lionel Robbins, a fellow advocate of markets. Ludwig von Mises, Hayek's mentor and a recognized businesscycle
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444226904577558672719752
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Where's the confidence fairy? Not in the jobs market...
Evening Standard, 18/10/2012, p.54, Russell Lynch
on almost religious fervour, most people made up their minds before they had even entered the room, and would never be won over. Incidently Lord Layard, a scion of the London School of Economics and Labour peer, didn't set up the event for altruistic reasons. Although he didn't attend, he's an anti-austerity man who fully expected his team to win.
http://www.standard.co.uk/business/markets/russell-lynch-wheres-the-confidence
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Coalition's energy policy is even more confused that its 'lowest tariff' pledge | Michael Jacobs
guardian.co.uk (Web), 18/10/2012, Michael Jacobs
the coalition would be "the greenest government ever" is on the line. • Michael Jacobs is visiting professor in the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/18/coalition-energy-policy-lowest
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Is the eurozone crisis nearly over? | The panel
guardian.co.uk (Web), 18/10/2012, Ha-Joon Chang, Alistair Darling, Costas Lapavitsas, Phillip Inman, Luis Garicano and Olaf Gersemann
of the poor Euro design – Spain will not get out of the hole, and Europe will remain at risk. • Luis Garicano is professor of economics and strategy at the London School of Economics and Political Science Olaf Gersemann: This is only a respite We might have entered a period of relative calm in the eurozone. The key reason is simple:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/18/is-eurozone-crisis-nearly-over|
Milburn calls for top unis to run schools
Morning Star Online (Web), 18/10/2012, Unattributed
Blairite former health secretary Alan Milburn - now the government's "social mobility tsar" - for leading institutions to open academy schools. He reckons universities such as Cambridge and Oxford, the London School of Economics and University College, London, should sponsor these ideologically dynamite schools in "disadvantaged areas." Mr Milburn claimed that they should also give bright poor students the opportunity
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/125124|
What has happened to the Gaddafis?
BBC (Web), 19/10/2012, Unattributed
uprising. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (son) Former heir-apparent Saif al-Islam was captured a month after his father's death, and has since been in custody in the mountain town of Zintan. The London School of Economics graduate has been at the centre of a protracted struggle between the International Criminal Court, where he is wanted for charges of crimes against humanity, and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19966059#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa|