LSE in print
Scheme is no guarantee of reviving the economy
The Times, 04/02/2013, p.35, Kathryn Hopkins
Act received Royal Assent, we have agreed terms for the Northern Line Extension and announced £10 billion of projects that prequalify for a guarantee." A report last week from the London School of Economics Growth Commission called on the Government to create an independent infrastructure bank to mitigate the "political procrastination" that has deterred investors from making long-term commitments.
We've been on a roll - and can do it again
The Sunday Times, 03/02/2013, p.4, David Smith
Britain's economy. It set out some good ideas about how to generate growth over the medium and long term through infrastructure, innovation, education and skills. More striking was that the London School of Economics (LSE) Growth Commission stressed that Britain approaches the future with very considerable advantages, and an economy that is far from broken.
OUR CHOICE
The Sunday Times, 03/02/2013, p.47, Dominic Sandbrook
by PETER PRESTON HarperPress £10.99 e-book £7.99 Preston's staggeringly detailed, powerful and affecting chronicle of the savagery unleashed during the Spanish civil war genuinely deserves the label "important". A London School of Economics historian, he calls it the Spanish Holocaust: an orgy of suffering in which some 200,000 men were killed at the front.
'I take a dark view of life but I'm very resilient'
The Times, 02/02/2013, p.30, Alice Thomson; Rachel Sylvester
quite get over the idea that no one was running at me trying to take the ball. You have an intensely focused beam of concentration. When you're working, everything else is excluded." Romance bores her. "It's a gap in what I've done; there are no love stories," she says. For her, all relationships are a power struggle. "I've always
A masterful storyteller with an instinct for the zeitgeist
Financial Times, 02/02/2013, p.12, Peter Aspden
painful illness she herself diagnosed as endometriosis, the remedy for which cost her the chance to have children and caused her abruptly to gain weight. She studied law at the London School of Economics and Sheffield university, and was briefly a social worker - a twinning almost designed for budding novelists, honing skills in forensics and empathy. Her first novel,
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/553dcb90-6bbc-11e2-a17d-00144feab49a.html#axzz2JuxnnvMy|
Investment failure blighting Britain
Daily Mail, 02/02/2013, p.102, Ruth Sunderland
tunnel, HS1, were first conceived in the 1970s but were stymied by local campaigners in Kent. The London Crossrail project has been around since the 1980s. A report by the London School of Economics Growth Commission this week tackles the infrastructure problem head on. The commission points out that the UK's adversarial political system, coupled with rampant nimby-ism, has hobbled
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/money/news/article-2272063/RUTH-SUNDERLAND-Investment-failure-blighting-Britain.html|
Heckles rule at the LSE
Evening Standard, 01/02/2013, p.17, Unattributed
LSE economics professor and climate change expert Lord Stern was hoist with his own petard last night at the launch of the LSE Growth Commission Report. Asked a question from
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/heckles-rule-at-the-lse-8477
198.html|
The Prof who proves sometimes it really is good not to talk
Daily Express, 02/02/2013, p.18
smartphones are the umbilical cords to their hectic social lives. But I rather like being out of touch so I was interested to read that Professor Paul Dolan of the London School of Economics told an audience that they should switch their mobiles off. Prof Dolan is an expert on happiness so it's worth listening to him.
LSE online
Children are 'upset' by online violence, study finds
Observer (Web), 02/02/2013, Maggie Brown
down". Phippen said: "There is no silver bullet to crack child safety online. Government's obsession with filtering is OK, but too narrow." Sonia Livingstone, professor of social psychology at the London School of Economics, told the Oxford Media Convention last month that LSE research, which asked 8,000 children aged nine to 16 about the disturbing things they had seen on
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/feb/03/children-upset-online-
violence-study|
Tim Harford on the Indiana Jones of economics
BBC News
Phillips worked as a busker, a gold miner and a crocodile hunter before studying at the London School of Economics where he used a system of water pumps and valves to create the first working model of the British economy or indeed of any economy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21145100|
Kids Given Lessons On Dangers Of Social Media
Sky News (Web), 02/02/2013, Unattributed
why 24% of UK residents have been the victim of identity fraud. And the need to teach children early in life became even more evident after an expert at the London School of Economics recently estimated a million nine to 12-year-olds already use Facebook, despite the fact they are meant to be 13 before becoming members. Mark Neighbour has been
http://news.sky.com/story/1046451/kids-given-lessons-on-dangers-of-social-
media|
Planning for long-term growth tells us what we should do in the short-term
New Statesman (Web), 01/02/2013, Ian Mulheirn
Plan B now, plan B forever. Two things are striking about yesterday’s report of the LSE Growth Commission . The first is the very strong implication of its conclusions that the path to future prosperity is decidedly one involving, indeed demanding, government involvement in the
http://www.newstatesman.com/economics/2013/02/planning-long-term-growth-
tells-us-what-we-should-do-short-term|
The Great Depression, the joy of cummerbunds and the unbearable smugness of Dom Joly
Telegraph (Web), 01/02/2013, Damian Thompson
Roma How much of our anxiety about Romanians flooding into Britain is actually about Roma gipsies? It’s a sensitive topic, as I discovered at a seminar devoted to it at the LSE. The lecturer deplored the obstacles faced by illiterate Roma in Britain. I suggested they should learn to read. It was one of those “I’ll get my coat” moments. Luckily
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100201143/the-great-
depression-the-joy-of-cummerbunds-and-the-unbearable-smugness-of-dom-joly/|
Colin Tipton obituary
guardian.co.uk (Web), 01/02/2013, Unattributed
everyone to have. From a working-class background in Essex, he went to Ilford county high school for boys and studied social sciences at Leicester University, followed by Asian studies at the London School of Economics in 1963. Three years later he joined what was then Battersea College of Technology, as a lecturer in general studies and sociology. Not long afterwards, Battersea became
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2013/feb/01/colin-tipton-obituary|
Payment by results? a 'dangerous idiocy' that makes staff tell lies
guardian.co.uk (Web), 01/02/2013, Unattributed
results. Last year's scandal with A4e provision of employment programmes is just one in a long line of haphazard outcome measurement. Gwyn Bevan and Christopher Hood, professors of management at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford respectively, on the NHS. They concluded that "target based performance management always creates 'gaming' ". Not sometimes. Not frequently. Always. Sadly, the
http://www.guardian.co.uk/local-government-network/2013/feb/01/payment-
results-staff-fictions|
Kids Given Lessons On Dangers Of Social Media
Independent Radio News (Web), 02/02/2013, Unattributed
explain why 24% of UK residents have been the victim of identity fraud. And the need to teach children early in life became even more evident after an expert at the London School of Economics recently estimated a million nine to 12-year-olds already use Facebook, despite the fact they are meant to be 13 before becoming members. Mark Neighbour has been leading
LSE Commission calls for a new focus on investment for future prosperity
Finchannel.com - Feb 1 at 13:30 GMT
and well-informed policy frameworks anchored in a broad political consensus on a new vision for growth.As the London School of Economics and Political Science said, these are among the conclusions of the...
http://finchannel.com/Main_News/B_Schools/123144_LSE_Commission_calls
_for_a_new_focus_on_investment_for_future_prosperity_/|
Queen awards Regius professorship in economics to LSE
Finchannel.com - Feb 1 at 13:30 GMT
regarded as a reflection of the exceptionally high quality of teaching and research at an institution. As the London School of Economics and Political Science said, all entries were assessed by a panel of...
http://finchannel.com/Main_News/B_Schools/123143_Queen_awards_Regius
_professorship_in_economics_to_LSE_/|
Glücksforscher: Nelson Mandela ist der glücklichste Mensch der Welt
Osnabrucker Zeitung - Feb 2 at 5:08 GMT
an der Jacobs University und der Universität Bremen über Glück, Sozialkapital und Lebensqualität. Der 31-Jährige promovierte an der London School of Economics über Happiness und war Gastforscher an der Harvard...
http://www.noz.de/deutschland-und-welt/kultur/fernsehen/69283023/gluecksforscher-nelson-mandela-ist-der-gluecklichste-mensch-der-welt|
A nosotros, los festejos y la comida (translate)
El Mundo - Berta González de Vega - Feb 1 at 11:26 GMT
mezcla hispano británica, ya que lo suyo sería que se responsabilizara de esa cartera el profesor de la London School of Economics Luis Garicano, que hace unos días en un artículo confesaba que no siente ningún...
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2013/02/01/andalucia_malaga/1359704287.html|
UK economists demand urgent growth plan
Press TV - Feb 1 at 9:27 GMT
pressure on Chancellor George Osborne, slamming his austerity measures and calling for an urgent plan for growth. The London School of Economics Growth Commission also branded government investment in a...
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/02/01/286690/uk-economists-demand-urgent
-growth-plan/|
Anders Borg talar ut om enveckasförsvaret (translate)
SvD - Ledarsidan - Feb 3 at 1:48 GMT
håll. Anders Borg har inte precis varit talträngd om finansens försvarspolitik, men i samband med en föreläsning på London School of Economics den 16/1 talade han ut. Borg fick – med avstamp i ÖB:s enveckasförsvar...
http://www.svd.se/opinion/ledarsidan/anders-borg-talar-ut-om-enveckasforsvaret_7883558.svd|
HSC : 68 bourses octroyées par l’État au lieu de 30 (translate)
Le Mauricien - Feb 2 at 13:03 GMT
la filière « Économie ». Le boursier de la MCB Foundation entreprend généralement ses études dans la prestigieuse London School of Economics (LSE). Cette augmentation conséquente de bourses est largment...
http://www.lemauricien.com/article/hsc%C2%A0%C2%A068-bourses-octroyees
-l%E2%80%99etat-au-lieu-30|
Steinbrück geht auf Auslandsreise (translate)
Westdeutsche Allgemeine - Feb 2 at 11:43 GMT
der Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King, an. Am Montag will der SPD-Politiker eine finanzpolitische Rede an der London School of Economics halten, am Dienstag folgt ein europapolitischer Vortrag in der Residenz...
http://www.derwesten.de/politik/steinbrueck-geht-auf-auslandsreise-id7558
022.html|
SPD: Steinbrück geht auf Auslandsreise (translate)
Die Welt - Feb 2 at 11:42 GMT
der Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King, an. Am Montag will der SPD-Politiker eine finanzpolitische Rede an der London School of Economics halten, am Dienstag folgt ein europapolitischer Vortrag in der Residenz...
http://www.welt.de/newsticker/news3/article113325235/Steinbrueck-geht-auf-Auslandsreise.html|
Aktien-Experte Oppenheimer: Der DAX ist uns sehr sympatisch (translate)
Finanzen.net - Feb 4 at 2:06 GMT
wird. zur Person: Globaler Aktienstratege Peter Oppenheimer ist globaler Chef-Aktienstratege der US-Investmentbank Goldman Sachs. 1985 absolvierte er die London School of Economics und ar¬beitete anschließend...
http://www.finanzen.net/nachricht/aktien/Euro-am-Sonntag-Interview-Aktien
-Experte-Oppenheimer-Der-DAX-ist-uns-sehr-sympatisch-2252023|
LSE on TV/radio
BBC 1 West Midlands (3 Feb)
Sunday Politics
Mention of the Growth Commission
BBC Radio 4 (3 Feb)
Newspaper Review
Lord Stern joins the panel for the newspaper review
BBC London 94.9FM (3 Feb)
Mention of Paul Dolan suggesting that turning off phones can help happiness.
BBC News 24 (1 Feb)
News
Fawaz Gerges comments on the conflict in Mali.
BBC Radio Scotland (1 Feb)
Tony Travers comments on regional government and London.