LSE in print
Infrastructure plan met with cautious support
City AM, 05/12/2013, p.6, Kate Mccann
The move was hailed as a short-sighted political crowd-pleaser ahead of the Autumn Statement later today by Tony Travers, visiting professor at the London School of Economics. He said: "The unwillingness of successive governments to consider toll roads is another nail in the coffin for the idea of any substantial expansion of the British road system via tolls. It’s clearly a political decision.
http://www.cityam.com/article/1386208321/infrastructure-plan-met-cautious-support|
Let voters express their views on how their tax is spent
The Times, 05/12/2013, p.32, John Kampfner
“Our results obtained from lab and survey studies point to a smart and no-cost way to help close the tax gap,” says one of the report’s authors, Jan-Emmanuel Neve, from University College London, and the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE. “Paying taxes feels to people like dumping a lot of money in a big black hole.”
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article3940060.ece|
Let's expose these apologists for INJUSTICE
The Times, 05/12/2013, p.31, David Aaronovitch
The paper was written last winter by two senior academics, Roger Ballard and Dr Fauzia Shariff, a former joint-director of the LSE. It claimed to be an "anthropologically informed response" by experts on the South Asian communities to what the authors clearly conceived to be a crude exercise conducted by johnny-come-latelies.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article3940038.ece|
Banks take another battering GBP130,000,000,000
The Guardian, 05/12/2013, p.3, Jill Treanor City Editor
The latest fines – the first levied on a financial cartel by Europe since the banking crisis began - take the total penalties for rigging Libor and other key interestrate benchmarks to £3.5bn. Research by the London School of Economics (LSE) to be published next week will put a total of £100bn on the costs of misconduct for 10 major banks, including RBS, Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group, in the five years to the end of 2012.
What price happiness?
Financial Times, 05/12/2013, p.14, Victor Mallet
This idea – like the wheel, obvious once you have thought of it - implies concern for spiritual and cultural wellbeing and environmental sustainability as well as for gross national product. It has been admired and studied abroad, including at the London School of Economics, and has spawned an academic industry at home: the Centre for Bhutan Studies developed a GNH index with nine domains, 33 indicators and 124 variables.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/83ba0adc-5b86-11e3-a2ba-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2mUZmgmvs|
The week in higher education
The Times Higher Education, 05/12/13, p.4, Unattributed
The London School of Economics is also on the market for an income boost. On 27 November, law firm Pinsent Masons announced that it was advising the institution on a £125 million bond issue. A couple of years ago, bonds were touted as the great white hope for universities’ capital programmes in the age of austerity, but only three – De Montfort, University and the universities of Cambridge and Manchester – have taken the plunge.
Don't cry for me, Argentina's boosting business
Evening Standard, 04/12/2013, p.30, Unattributed
Simon Bray, our sales director, today registered a Vietnamese family looking to buy a flat for their son, who is planning to study at LSE. I hear Simon talking about travelling around Vietnam in 1999 and discussing the economic progress since then.
LSE online
Banks fined record €1.7bn for rigging interest rates
guardian.co.uk (Web), 05/12/2013, Jill Treanor
Research by the London School of Economics (LSE) to be published next week will put a total of £100bn on the costs of misconduct for 10 major banks, including RBS, Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group, in the five years to the end of 2012.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/dec/04/banks-rate-rigging-libor-euribor-rbs-citigroup-jpmorgan|
Do smart people drink more? Here's some science to ease your hangover
New Statesman (Web), 04/12/2013, Unattributed
Researchers at the London School of Economics examined data on thousands of British adults in their 30s and found a positive correlation between educational attainment and daily drinking. The relationship was stronger for women: Women who had graduated from college were 86 per cent more likely than women who hadn’t graduated high school to admit to drinking on most days.
http://www.newstatesman.com/science/2013/12/do-smart-people-drink-more-heres-some-science-ease-your-hangover|
We don't punch our weight in current affairs, says BBC boss: Director of news calls on staff to 'change how we work'
Mail Online UK (Web), 04/12/2013, Alasdair Glennie
Its sister programme Panorama also came under the spotlight in April when an investigation into North Korea was accused of using students from the London School of Economics as a 'human shield'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2518409/We-dont-punch-weight-current-
affairs-says-BBC-boss-Director-news-calls-staff-change-work.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490|
Newsweek to resurrects print edition
guardian.co.uk (Web), 04/12/2013, Amanda Holpuch
IBT Media is the proprietor of digital publication The International Business Times, founded in 2006 by Etienne Uzac, a London School of Economics graduate from France. When the acquisition was announced, Uzac said: "Having a brand with that kind of global recognition will open doors for IBT, which is growing but still a young company.”
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/dec/04/newsweek-to-print-weekly-again|
Jock Young
guardian.co.uk (Web), 04/12/2013, Roger Matthews Keith Hayward
Jock secured a place at University College London to read biochemistry, but a chance encounter with the radical criminologist Steve Box convinced him to switch to sociology instead. In 1962 he enrolled at the London School of Economics, where he became inspired by new developments in US sociology. http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/dec/04/jock-young|
Dos colombianos en Washington
El País, 04/12/13, Eva Saiz
Universidad de Kansas y ha cursado masters en Harvard, Tufts y la London School of Economics. Moreno, por su parte, estudio Economía y Administración de Empresas en la universidad Florida Atlantic...
Nothing generates political heat like a statistic
Economia, 04/12/13, Cathy Newman
But this year, a professor at the London School of Economics proposed a new definition. If fuel costs are above the national average, leaving the householder below the poverty line, he or she is declared “fuel poor”. It’s that measure the government has said it will use. And according to the new calculation, fuel poverty actually fell under Labour, to 11.5% of households in 2009.
http://economia.icaew.com/opinion/december-2013/nothing-generates-political-
heat-like-a-statistic|
Streit führt zu besseren Entscheidungen als Einklang
DerStandard.at, 04/12/13, Unattributed
wie das Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung (MPIB) berichtet.Wissenschafter des MPIB und der London School of Economics werteten für ihre Metastudie Daten von Tieren aus, die in sozialen...
http://derstandard.at/1385169841912/Streit-fuehrt-zu-besseren-Entscheidungen-als-Einklang|
La batalla por la hegemonía epistémica
elPeriódico.com, 04/12/13, Pau Marí-Klose
de las universidades internacionales más conocidas del mundo como Harvard o la London School of Economics.Oportunidades insólitas En esta batalla, investigadores, profesores universitarios...
http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/opinion/batalla-por-hegemonia-epistemica
-por-pau-mari-klose-2894915|
Pétrole: L'Iran veut retrouver son rang malgré la baisse de la demande
Huffington Post Canada, 04/12/13, Grégory Raymond
la carte géostratégique du Moyen-Orient", a estimé Fawaz Gerges, professeur la London School of Economics. Pour Uzi Rabi, spécialiste de l’Iran l’Université de Tel Aviv, "les Saoudiens sont...
http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/12/04/petrole-iran-rang-opep_n_4382506.html|
UW-Madison student wins Marshall Scholarship, bound for London masters programs
The Daily Cardinal, 04/12/13, Tamar Myers
He plans to complete two one-year master’s degree programs at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the first in comparative politics and the second in politics and communication. His interest in comparing the two political systems sparked when he studied abroad in London in 2012.
http://host.madison.com/daily-cardinal/uw-madison-student-wins-marshall-scholarship-bound-for-london-masters/article_9cff9d9c-5cb0-11e3-81fd-001a4bcf887a.html|
LSE on TV/radio
News
BBC World Service Radio, 05/12/2013
Professor Paul de Grauwe talks about the instability of gold.
Eggheads
BBC 2 Scotland, 04/12/2013
A group of LSE students compete on the BBC quiz show Eggheads.