Tuesday 23 October 2012

LSE in print

Stop this guerrilla campaign against ECB policy
Financial Times, 23/10/2012, p.13, Paul De Grauwe
Article by Paul de Grauwe, John Paulson chair in European political economy at the London School of Economics.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8e902142-1c32-11e2-a63b-00144feabdc0.html|

LSE online

Kuwait's political crisis at critical juncture
BBC (Web), 23/10/2012, Unattributed
whether expressions of popular support for reforms will be resisted and, as in Bahrain, violently suppressed. Dr Kristian Coates Ulrichsen is Co-Director of the Kuwait Research Programme at the London School of Economics and Associate Fellow of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Programme, Chatham House.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20026581|

Morocco plays the 'king's club' card
Financial Times (Web), 22/10/2012, Unattributed
in Rabat's political and economic calculations. "In Morocco's case, the importance of GCC support has only increased with the weakness in the eurozone," said Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, research fellow at the London School of Economics. "Both Qatar and Kuwait have made significant investments in Moroccan infrastructure and development projects in the last year, and the king undoubtedly will be seeking more
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/779d4412-1c3f-11e2-a14a-00144feabdc0.html|

Euro crisis opens old wounds for Greece, Germany
CNN – 21 October 2012
Spyros Economides is quoted on the Greek-German relations. "Partly it's a generational thing for those who remember World War II and the consequences, but it's also younger people who are unemployed and suffering economic dislocation, which they pin squarely on other people's shoulders, in this case the Germans."
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/19/business/euro-crisis-greece-germany/index.html?hpt=ibu_c2|

Greece Austerity Diet Risks 1930s-Style Depression: Euro Credit
Bloomberg – 22 October 2012
“The experience of the 1930s says you need to stimulate the economy,” said Vassilis Monastiriotis, a senior lecturer in political economy at the London School of Economics. “The rise of the far-right in Greece isn't something ephemeral that will go ...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-22/greece-austerity-diet-risks-1930s-style-depression-euro-credit.html|

Trump documentary highlights the vulnerability of smaller economies
Herald Scotland
The film showed, through the contribution of Paul Cheshire, professor emeritus of economic geography at the London School of Economics, that the Scottish Government is already much more vulnerable to pressure from obnoxious and predatory big business ...
http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/letters/trump-documentary-highlights-the-vulnerability-of-smaller-economies.19214235|

Regulators Should Avoid Choking HFT Benefits, Study Says
Bloomberg
Regulating the algorithms used by computer traders would be too costly and cumbersome, according to the study's contributors, who include Dave Cliff of the University of Bristol, Jean-Pierre Zigrand of the London School of Economics and Oliver Linton ...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-22/regulators-should-avoid-choking-hft-benefits-study-says.html|

Human rights: The hidden cost of the war on drugs
Yahoo! UK and Ireland - Oct 23 at 6:20 BST
control has spurred black market violence and human rights abuses across the world, British researchers found today.The London School of Economics (LSE) produced a report finding the UN-governed international...
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/human-rights-hidden-cost-war-drugs-050049965.html|

Korea to launch graduate school on green growth
Korea Times
The school hopes to forge partnerships with Harvard University, London School of Economics and Political Science and other top universities around the world, they said. Under Lee's "low carbon, green growth" drive, South Korea founded GGGI in 2010 as a
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2012/10/116_122939.html|

Santos insiste en replantear lucha contra las drogas (translate)
El Tiempo.com - Oct 23 at 5:46 BST
es tiempo de "darle una mirada fresca" al tema. En la presentación de un informe de la prestigiosa London School of Economics sobre los resultados de la lucha contra el narcotráfico, el presidente de la...
http://m.eltiempo.com/politica/santos-insiste-en-replantear-lucha-contra-las-drogas/12327562|

Grecja powtórzy los Republiki Weimarskiej?. (translate)
Forsal.pl - Oct 23 at 4:59 BST
do pogorszenia się stosunków Grecji z sąsiadami, np. z Trucją lub Macedonią” – uważa Vassilis Monastiriotis, wykładowca z London School of Economics. Niemiecka gospodarka w latach 1929-1933 skurczyła się...
http://forsal.pl/artykuly/656491,oszczednosci_w_grecji_groza_kryzysem_podobnym
_do_tego_z_lat_30_xx_w.html
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Will Gas Reserves Become Resource Curse?
AllAfrica.com - Oct 22 at 22:56 BST
move forward in its development process.Katharina Neureiter holds an MSc in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics specialising in African colonial history and war cultures...
http://allafrica.com/stories/201209260344.html?aa_source=acrdn-f2|

Syrian spillover exposes Lebanon's instability
New Zealand Herald - Oct 22 at 22:56 BST
and split among sectarian lines," said Fawaz A. Gerges, head of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics. "The fear is not if the Syrian conflict will spill over - but whether it has already...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/middle-east/news/article.cfm?l_id=8&objectid=10842279&ref=rss|

Syrian rebels worried al-Qaeda infiltrating rebellion
USA TODAY
"The conflict is becoming a war-by-proxy for regional players," said Fawaz Gerges, director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics. "The predicament the opposition now finds itself in is unifying its ranks not only against the
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2012/10/22/syrian-anti-assad-activists
-say-al-qaeda-getting-weapons-to-hijack-revolution/1650291/
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'Obama's Policies Support Those Who Don't Start with A Lot,' Says Sean Hassan
India West
Indeed, if it wasn't for financial aid, including from the federal government, I would not have been able to attend Tufts, the London School of Economics, and Stanford Law School. So, I look at the two candidates and see whose life experiences are even ...
http://indiawest.com/news/7208--obama-s-policies-support-those-who-don-t-start
-with-a-lot-says-sean-hassan.html
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LSE on TV/radio

BBC Radio 4 (23 Oct)
Today
Jean-Pierre Zigrand comments on protection for financial markets.

BBC London 94.9FM (22 Oct)
News
Mention of LSE survey of police officers.

Voice of Russia (18 Oct)
Morning Show
Iain Begg comments on the EU being awarded the Nobel Prize.

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