LSE in print
Relative progress came in spite of low investment
Financial Times, 23/04/2013, p.10, Unattributed
Letter from Professor Tim Besley and Professor John Van Reenen, LSE: Sir, David Sawers (Letters, April 18) takes issue with Martin Wolf and the LSE Growth Commission, who argue that low capital investment is a major cause of the UK’s poor economic performance. Although he supports our call for more road building and better road pricing, he opposes other reforms to unlock infrastructure spending….
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2042270a-a8ee-11e2-a096-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2RGijhSre|
Teacher-bashing: a political sport with no winners
The Guardian, 23/04/2013, p.30, Polly Toynbee
Extensive research by the LSE's David Marsden concludes that bribing public-sector professionals to work harder makes no difference, while causing resentment and division. What works is good staff appraisal and goal-setting, but it's a Conservative tenet that only money motivates people. PRP only works with low-paid piece-rate working – strawberry picking – but doesn't motivate civil servants, teachers or nurses.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/22/teacher-bashing-gove-performance-pay|
Economic howlers of our time
The Guardian, 23/04/2013, p.33, Unattributed
Letter: In stating that the 1980 Thatcher boom was all down to policies that were pointed out in the LSE growth commission finding, John Horam (Letter, 19 April) misses two issues. First, the LSE commission omits the fact that the Thatcher boom was funded heavily by the peak in production of North Sea oil, which papered over the cracks that would have caused a necessary U-turn in her monetarist agenda. Second, the commission recommends large-scale government investment in education and in transport and energy infrastructure, plus subsidies for R&D through a business bank. Hardly a ringing endorsement of Thatcher's dream. Why can't the right be more honest about the Thatcher years? Tim Bell, London
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/apr/22/economic-howlers-of-our-time|
Top stories from around the world
The Sunday Times Online, 21/04/2013, p.1, Unattributed
The BBC faced accusations that it had put British university students at risk by using a student trip to the country as cover for a documentary. The London School of Economics claimed the students were the victims of lies and deception by the makers of Panorama and its reporter, John Sweeney.
LSE online
What should local authorities do about the happiness debate?
guardian.co.uk (Web), 22/04/2013, Unattributed
Article by Neil Reeder, director of Head and Heart Economics, a fellow of the Young Foundation and a researcher on social value at the London School of Economics.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/local-government-network/2013/apr/22/local-government-happiness-wellbeing|
The battle for Golibar: urban splintering in Mumbai
Open Democracy (Web), 22/04/2013, Unattributed
About the author Matt Birkinshaw is a PhD researcher at the London School of Economics. He works on governance and infrastructure in India with a focus on urban water and municipal reforms.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/matt-birkinshaw/battle-for-golibar-
urban-splintering-in-mumbai|
Feisty German minister stands up to Merkel
Reuters UK (Web), 22/04/2013, Erik Kirschbaum
Von der Leyen speaks fluent English and French. She studied at the London School of Economics from 1977 to 1980, but used the pseudonym "Rose Ladson" due to concerns she might be targeted, as the daughter of a prominent politician, by left-wing guerrillas who were active in West Germany at the time.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/04/22/uk-germany-von-der-leyen-idUKBRE93L06420130422?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews|
Transparency International raises serious concerns about corruption in the UK
Open Democracy (Web), 22/04/2013, Unattributed
Don't miss Esplanade, our Editors' blog Subterranean Politics (our partnership with Mary Kaldor's team at the LSE) Reluctant radicals (with Counterpoint) Oecumene: citizenship after orientalism (with the Open University).
http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/stuart-weir/transparency-international-raises-serious-concerns-about-corruption-in-uk|
University of Ghana calls for establishment of Research Council
Ghana News Agency - Apr 23 at 3:19 BST
and Tanzania has been able to uphold the commitment. Professor Thandika Mkandawire, First Chair, African Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science said the experience of many industrialized...
http://ghananewsagency.org/social/university-of-ghana-calls-for-establishment-of-research-council-59244|
Mary Ellen Harte: Climate Change This Week: The $6 Trillion Mistake, Cut The Soot, and More!
Huffington Post - Mary Ellen Harte - Apr 22 at 19:33 BST
Fossil Fuels Investments A $6 Trillion Mistake, if the world addresses climate change, says a London School of Economics study, reports Sally Bakewell at Bloomberg News, since most of the fossil fuel reserves...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-ellen-harte/climate-change-this-week_b_3133056.html?utm_hp_ref=green|
Race by scientists to resurrect extinct species raises some ethical questions
Taipei Times Online - Apr 22 at 18:48 BST
ethics had been worked, out, swathes of land in Siberia repopulated with mammoths and cave lions,” Poinar said. London School of Economics sociologist Carrie Friese fears that ethics have been left by the...
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2013/04/23/2003560526|
Laptop lectures
The Australian - Lucy Fisher - Apr 22 at 18:46 BST
addition, not all British universities seem convinced by online platforms. Many leading institutions, including Oxford, Cambridge and the London School of Economics, are conspicuous by their absence from Futurelearn...
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/laptop-lectures-coming-to-an-armchair-near-you/story-e6frgcjx-1226625637062|
Analysis: Myanmar's conflicting narratives
Al Jazeera - Apr 22 at 16:33 BST
overwhelming support for the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya," Dr Maung Zarni, a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and exiled activist, told Al Jazeera. This is the best of bad scenarios...
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/04/2013422134311312965.html|
Jailed Egypt Steel Mogul Shuns Buyout After $4 Billion Fines
Bloomberg - Mahmoud Kassem - Apr 22 at 11:22 BST
main misconception is that Dekheila was a national treasure that Ezz stole,” said Afaf, who studied at the London School of Economics. “In reality it was a struggling company with a cash flow crisis that was...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-21/jailed-egypt-steel-mogul-rejects
-buyout-after-4-billion-fines.html|
An Earth Day Debate: Is There a 'Carbon Bubble'?
New York Times - CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE - Apr 22 at 11:15 BST
emissions, bursting what some have dubbed “the carbon bubble.” A report released by the Carbon Tracker Initiative and the London School of Economics on Friday, shows that 60 to 80 percent of coal, oil and...
http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/an-earth-day-debate-is-there
-a-carbon-bubble/|
Feisty German Woman Stands Up to Merkel
CNBC - Apr 22 at 10:51 BST
42, following a career in medicine. Von der Leyen speaks fluent English and French. She studied at the London School of Economics from 1977 to 1980, but used the pseudonym "Rose Ladson" due to concerns she...
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100659653|
Feisty German minister stands up to Merkel
TheStar.com.my - Erik Kirschbaum - Apr 22 at 7:30 BST
42, following a career in medicine. Von der Leyen speaks fluent English and French. She studied at the London School of Economics from 1977 to 1980, but used the pseudonym "Rose Ladson" due to concerns she...
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/4/22/worldupdates/feisty-
german-minister-stands-up-to-merkel&sec=Worldupdates|
El Gobernador Gabino... (translate)
Síntesis.mx - Apr 22 at 20:30 BST
públicos. Hugo Tulio Félix Clímaco es Licenciado en Economía, egresado del ITAM; Maestro en Historia Económica por la London School of Economics, además de estudiar Ciencias Políticas y Administración Pública...
http://www.sintesis.mx/oaxaca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19632&catid=35:local&Itemid=54|
Ramener des dinosaures à la vie, c'est possible ? (translate)
Le Point - Apr 22 at 11:49 BST
"La vraie question c'est : est-ce qu'on doit le faire ?" Carrie Friese, sociologue à la London School of Economics, redoute que cette course à l'exploit scientifique ne laisse l'éthique sur le bord du chemin...
http://www.lepoint.fr/science/ramener-des-dinosaures-a-la-vie-c-est-possible-
22-04-2013-1657780_25.php|
El Rey vuelve al trabajo antes de tiempo (translate)
Madrid Press - Apr 22 at 9:24 BST
es una situación en la que puede pasar cualquier cosa", dijo Jonathan Hopkin, experto en política de la London School of Economics. Fuentes cercanas a la Zarzuela dicen que la familia real está preocupada...
http://madridpress.com/not/153770/el_rey_vuelve_al_trabajo_antes_de_tiempo/|
LSE on TV/radio
BBC Radio Coventry & Warwickshire (22 April 2013)
Tony Travers was interviewed about local elections in the West Midlands.
BBC 2 (22 April 2013)
The Daily Politics
An LSE report on immigration is referenced.
BBC Three (22 April 2013)
Bad Education
LSE is referenced.