LSE in print
Kuwait crisis deepens as protests stepped up
Financial Times, 25/10/2012, p.10, Michael Peel; Camilla Hall
family with the escalating protest is that it could reach a tipping point where they are no longer in control of events," said Kristian Coates-Ulrichsen, a Gulf specialist at the London School of Economics. "Change in Kuwait holds lessons for other Gulf countries: will it be incremental and consensual, or will it be violent and forced?"
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/82650772-1df7-11e2-ad76-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2AI5A1nyb|
Reports of the West's demise and East's rise are greatly exaggerated
Times Higher Education, 25/10/2012, Michael Cox
The THE World University Rankings do not signal a power shift, but rather show just how far Asia still has to go, Michael Cox argues.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode
=421585|
Try conversation as well as action, libraries told
Times Higher Education,, 25/10/2012
Jane Secker, copyright and digital literacy adviser at the London School of Economics, set out a model of information literacy and argued that it should be taught not as an extra but within the main curriculum as "part of the shift to independent learning".
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=421572&c=1|
What are you reading?
Times Higher Education, 25/10/2012
Mary Evans, Centennial professor at the Gender Institute, London School of Economics, is reading J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy (Little, Brown, 2012). "This does a very good job of reviving the idea of socialist realism. It's not the rant that its critics suggest but a very recognisable (and readable) account of many of the characters of contemporary England, both within and outside the current government."
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode
=421561|
Wealth of nations
Times Higher Education Supplement , 25/10/2012
Mention of the Women's Library moving to the London School of Economics in 2013.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=421558&c=1|
LSE online
Police and Crime Commissioners provide a chance for more connected policing
The Guardian – 25/10/12
The elections of the Police and Crime Commissioners on Thursday 15 November will mark what Professor Tim Newburn of the London School of Economics identifies as potentially the 'most radical overhaul of police governance in half a century.'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2012/oct/25/police-and-crime-commissioners-elections-neighbourhoods-riots|
Selling A Better Life
Forbes.com - Oct 25 at 1:21 BST
civil servant, he moved often around Malaysia until going abroad for university. Armed with a degree from the London School of Economics, an M.B.A. from the University of Southern Illinois and a few years...
http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml|
Vice Presidential Candidate to Speak at Southern California Investment Forum Today, at SCIF luncheon Business Wire
Yahoo! Finance - Oct 24 at 23:32 BST
MBA in finance from New York University. He also completed additional studies in politics and economics at the London School of Economics. More information on WSR is available at www.WallStreetResearch.org...
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/vice-presidential-candidate-speak-southern-221900583.html|
Vidur Kapur: This Openly Gay, South Asian Stand-Up Comic Isn’t Giving Up On His American Dream
Huffington Post - Vidur Kapur - Oct 24 at 18:34 BST
I had to do to gain any sort of respect within the Indian community. I graduated from the London School of Economics and attempted a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago. Failing miserably at the...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vidur-kapur/this-openly-gay-south-asi_b_2010
052.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices|
Gehälter-Studie : Neidbefriedigung wichtiger als dickes Konto (translate)
Handelsblatt - Oct 24 at 16:20 BST
Geldbörse haben, als der Kollege, das ist Managern wichtig. Quelle: dpa DüsseldorfLaut einer Studie des Beratungsunternehmens PwC und der London School of Economics ist die absolute Höhe der Vergütung nur...
http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/management/strategie/gehaelter
-studie-neidbefriedigung-wichtiger-als-dickes-konto/7293398.html|
The inequality at the heart of the housing crisis
Left Foot Forward - Tom Muddimer - Oct 24 at 15:26 BST
A recent study by the London School of Economics has found average house rent prices bear little relation to average wages . Crucially the dataset focuses on average London Wages and London Rents . House...
http://www.leftfootforward.org/2012/10/the-inequality-at-the-heart-of-the-housing
-crisis/|
Mónica de Oriol, nueva presidenta de la Real Fábrica de Tapices (translate)
ABC.es - Madrid) Monumentos y patrimonio nacional - Oct 24 at 15:07 BST
nueva presidenta, licenciada en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y diplomada por la London School of Economics, ha compatibilizado la actividad docente con la trayectoria...
http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=1278854|
Neidbefriedigung wichtiger als dickes Konto (translate)
Yahoo! German - Oct 24 at 15:01 BST
Laut einer Studie des Beratungsunternehmens PwC und der London School of Economics ist die absolute Höhe der Vergütung nur für 35 Prozent der Führungskräfte entscheidend. Jedem zweiten befragten Manager ist...
http://de.finance.yahoo.com/nachrichten/neidbefriedigung-wichtiger-dickes-konto-124000220.html|
Greece, Germany: Wounds reopened
CNN - Oct 24 at 14:57 BST
been tested by the crisis. Spyros Economides, a senior lecturer in international relations and European politics at the London School of Economics, said Greeks are "not very positive at all" in their views...
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/19/business/euro-crisis-greece-germany/index
.html?hpt=hp_bn6|
High Rise Hope
Finchannel.com - Oct 24 at 13:29 BST
have if it is accompanied by consumer education to help householders cut energy use. , presents evidence from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) on the social impact of greening homes...
http://finchannel.com/Main_News/B_Schools/118314_High_Rise_Hope_/|
Global drug policies need radical reform, says new LSE report
Finchannel.com - Oct 24 at 13:29 BST
international policy requires radical reform to remove outmoded, unscientific thinking, according to a major new report from the London School of Economics and Political Science which has been endorsed by...
http://finchannel.com/Main_News/B_Schools/118313_Global_drug_policies
_need_radical_reform%2C_says_new_LSE_report/|
Mobiles Internet boomt (translate)
Neue Zürcher Zeitung - Oct 24 at 11:41 BST
Familie oder Freunden zusammen und gleichzeitig sozial vernetzt sein. Die Schweiz im Vergleich Auch in einem von der London School of Economics and Political Science durchgeführten Vergleich der Schweiz...
http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/mobiles-internet-boomt-1.17712967|
Tausche Traumjob gegen hohes Gehalt
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Online – Oct 23 2012
Coverage of joint report from LSE and PWC on manager compensation
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/beruf-chance/recht-und-gehalt/studie-tausche-
traumjob-gegen-hohes-gehalt-11935374.html|
Für Traumjob würden Manager auf viel Gehalt verzichten
Wirtschafts Woche – Oct 23 2012
http://www.wiwo.de/erfolg/beruf/verguetung-fuer-traumjob-wuerden-manager
-auf-viel-gehalt-verzichten/7288186.html|
Aleš Chmelař: Všichni demokraté by měli být proti finanční ústavě (translate)
Aktuálnì.cz - Oct 24 at 11:40 BST
měnové unie. V oboru finanční regulace pracoval pro Radu EU a pro Evropskou sociálně demokratickou stranu. Promoval na London School of Economics a Sciences Po Paris. Můžete s ním komunikovat na twitteru:...
http://blog.aktualne.centrum.cz/blogy/ales-chmelar.php?itemid=17911|
Zero tax doesn't make you happy: Richard Layard
Business Standard
Richard Layard, popularly known as the “happiness economist” and currently professor at the London School of Economics, says that Bhutan's happiness index cannot be replicated due to its complexity. The 78-year old British economist tells Dilasha Seth ...
http://business-standard.com/india/news/zero-tax-doesnt-make-you-happy-
richard-layard/490629/|
LSE on TV/radio
BBC World Service (23 Oct)
Charlie Beckett comments on Newsnight's decision to drop a story on Jimmy Savile.
Also on:
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BBC Radio 5 Live (23 Oct)
BBC Radio West Midlands (24 Oct)
Tony Travers comments on local government finances.
SKAI (Greek TV) (23 Oct)
SKAI Life
Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis gave a live interview to SKAI for the programme Skai Life http://www.skai.gr/player/TV/?MMID=233359|