Friday 18 January 2013

LSE in print

Letters: The reality of Britain's relationship with the EU
The Guardian, 18/01/2013, p.37, Unattributed
Letter by Professor Damian Chalmers, LSE.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/17/reality-britain-relationship-with-eu|

Climate-change laws: Beginning at home
The Economist, 19/01/2013, Unattributed
Yet Sam Fankhauser of the London School of Economics, who helped write the study, says the rise in national legislation helps rebut the sceptics’ claim that it is self-defeating for a country to act alone on climate change. He also points out that many big countries still have a way to go. In so far as China and India, for example, still regulate emissions at all, they do it through the central-planning system (though the first draft of China’s flagship environmental law is due this month).
http://www.economist.com/news/international/21569691-domestic-laws-not-
global-treaty-are-way-fight-global-warming-beginning-home?fsrc=rss|int
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birthdays
The Independent, 18/01/2013, p.49, Unattributed
racing driver, 42; Hon Sir Rocco Forte, chairman, Rocco Forte Hotels, 68; Paul Freeman, actor, 70; Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Professor of Physics, Cambridge University, 60; Lord Giddens, Director Emeritus, London School of Economics, 75; Bobby Goldsboro, singer and songwriter, 72; Lord Goodhart QC, human rights lawyer, 80; Robert Green, England footballer, 33; Pep Guardiola, manager and former Spain footballer,

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS
The Daily Telegraph, 18/01/2013, p.30, Unattributed
Acting President, Wolfson College, Oxford, 2006-08, 78; Lord Howell of Guildford, former Conservative MP, 77; Prof John Hume, former MP; joint winner, Nobel Peace Prize, 1998, 76; Lord Giddens, Director, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1997-2003, 75; Sir Martin Laing, Chairman, John Laing plc, 1985-2001, 71; Mr Paul Keating, Prime Minister of Australia, 1991-96, 69; the Hon Sir

LSE online

Osborne's Swedish ally warns on City role
FT.com (Web), 17/01/2013, Unattributed
it's difficult to be believable," he said. "The Brits must be at the table." The Swedish finance minister, a close ally of British chancellor George Osborne, was speaking at the London School of Economics. "The key asset that the UK is providing for Sweden and for Europe is the fact that London is our leading financial centre," he said.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d322330a-609c-11e2-a31a-00144feab49a.html#axzz2IJaYiYtD|

And this time we mean it...Lib Dems risk backlash with possible election pledge to cut tuition fees
The Independent (Web), 17/01/2013, Unattributed
raised by reversing the Government's cut in corporation tax for financial services and increasing the interest rate on loans to the highest-earning graduates. Nicholas Barr, Professor of Public Economics at the London School of Economics, said today that a lower cap would make sense to ensure enough people have a high-quality university education. He believes the Government went too far by
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/and-this-time-we-mean-itlib-
dems-risk-backlash-with-possible-election-pledge-to-cut-tuition-fees-8454
698.html
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Saif Gaddafi appears in court charged with trying to escape jail and insulting new Libyan regime's flag
Mail Online UK (Web), 17/01/2013, Steve Nolan
to get Saif-al Islam a place at Oxford University in 2002, but the institution rejected him because of concerns that he wasn't bright enough. He later received a PhD from the London School of Economics. He reportedly once threw wild parties in the south of France and owned a £10million mansion in Hampstead, London.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2264058/Saif-Gaddafi-appears-court
-charged-trying-escape-jail-insulting-new-Libyan-regime-s-flag.html
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吕讷堡大学“数字学校”在91个国家推出 (translate)
Phoenix TV - Jan 18 at 1:19 GMT
York)、伦敦经济学院 ( London School of Economics)、伦敦大学金史密斯学院 (GolDSmiths University of London)、耶路撒冷希伯来大学 (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)、苏黎世联邦理工学院 (ETH) 和苏黎世大学 (University of Zrich)、Collegium Helveticum、广州中山大学和香港城市大学等院...
http://finance.ifeng.com/roll/20130118/7573785.shtml|

Cameron delays Europe speech amid Algeria crisis
Miami Herald - CASSANDRA VINOGRAD and SYLVIA HUI - Jan 17 at 23:15 GMT
to the speech could hurt Cameron's future, according to EU expert Iain Begg, a professor at the London School of Economics."He's talked himself into a trap," Begg said. "By signaling this speech for several...
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/17/3186946/cameron-to-tackle-thorny-
issue.html
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Mali, Algeria and the Shadow of Colonialism
Yahoo! News - Jan 17 at 21:00 GMT
strength in the region.And thus the cycle is perpetuated. Fawaz Gerges a Middle East expert at the London School of Economics, told National Journal today that "regardless of the intentions of the French...
http://news.yahoo.com/mali-algeria-shadow-colonialism-154726935--politics.html|

Ministers urged to find £2bn to fund 'moderate' care threshold
Communitycare.co.uk - Jan 17 at 18:39 GMT
a year in 2010-11, found separate research published today by the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the London School of Economics, commissioned by Scope. This includes 76,000 disabled adults aged...
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/17/01/2013/118841/ministers-urged-to-
find-2bn-to-fund-moderate-care-threshold.htm
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«Το ΕΣΥ πρέπει να αλλάξει» (translate)
Kathimerini - Jan 17 at 18:35 GMT
πρόεδρος της Κίνησης Πολιτών, Κωνσταντίνος Ευριπίδης, Δ/νων Σύμβουλος της GENESIS Pharma, Ηλίας Μόσιαλος, καθηγητής Πολιτικής της Υγείας στο London School of Economics, Κυριάκος Σουλιώτης, επ. καθηγητής Πολιτικής...
http://www.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_kathremote_1_17/01/2013_479085|

Resist the cuts and stop worrying about your careers, trade union leader Len McCluskey tells Labour councillors
Camden New Journal - Jan 17 at 18:31 GMT
to government-ordered cuts in public spending. Len McCluskey, general secretary of Unite union, told an audience at the London School of Economics in Holborn that it would be “fantastic” if Labour councils...
http://www.camdennewjournal.com/news/2013/jan/resist-cuts-and-stop-worrying
-about-your-careers-trade-union-leader-len-mccluskey-tell
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WELLS COATES: Visionary whose designs for new flats were partly inspired by dank bedsits
Camden New Journal - Jan 17 at 18:03 GMT
many hours in other similar low-rent abodes. When he married his friend Marion Grove, a student at the London School of Economics, it became a defining point on the path to designing Lawn Road. He set about...
http://www.camdennewjournal.com/reviews/books/2013/jan/wells-coates-visionary-whose-designs-new-flats-were-partly-inspired-dank-beds|

Searching for Singapore: Chicken rice and more in Tokyo
Japan Times - REBECCA MILNER - Jan 17 at 17:37 GMT
Jeefan Shokudo's owner, Shigeki Koshiba, is a self-professed "Singapore food geek" (and a graduate of both the London School of Economics and the Culinary Institute of America) and writes an English and Japanese...
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/rss/fg20130118rm.html|

A grave crime, and embarrassment at the Bundesbank
Financial Times - Michael Steen - Jan 17 at 17:25 GMT
was the editor of the Central Banking journal and CentralBanking.com. Claire studied philosophy and economics at the London School of Economics. RSS
http://blogs.ft.com/money-supply/2013/01/17/counterfeiting/?Authorised=false|

Obama: frustrated pacifist, unsure ‘hawk’
Voice of Russia - Jan 17 at 17:11 GMT
a sly chameleon capable of selling Bushs newly packed foreign policy to the world. Mark Sleboda, of the London School of Economics, believes that Obama only managed to successfully resolve public relations-related...
http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_01_17/Obama-frustrated-pacifist-unsure-hawk/|

DLA UK managing partner heads Down Under for new Australia role
Legal Week - Gerard Starkey - Jan 17 at 16:33 GMT
Da Costa, who has taken a consultant role at the firm while also completing a masters at the London School of Economics. News of Darwin's departure from the UK follows a review of the UK business that has...
http://www.legalweek.com/legal-week/news/2236998/dla-piper-uk-managing-
partner-heads-down-under-for-new-australia-role?WT.rss_f=&WT.rss_a=DLA+UK+managing+partner+heads+Down+Under+for+
new+Australia+role
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Was Griechenland von Weimar lernen kann: Wenn Staaten die Hoffnung verlieren, ihre Schuld loswerden ... (translate)
FinanzNachrichten.de - Jan 17 at 16:14 GMT
besonders mit dieser Zeit und der Zeit davor befasst haben. So hat Deutschlands renommiertester Wirtschaftshistoriker, der an der London School of Economics lehrende Albrecht Ritschl, unter dem Titel "The...
http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2013-01/25724476-was-
griechenland-von-weimar-lernen-kann-wenn-staaten-die-hoffnung-verlieren-
ihre-schuld-loswerden-198.htm
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Inflation: Was Griechenland von Weimar lernen kann (translate)
Wirtschaftswoche - Jan 17 at 16:12 GMT
besonders mit dieser Zeit und der Zeit davor befasst haben. So hat Deutschlands renommiertester Wirtschaftshistoriker, der an der London School of Economics lehrende Albrecht Ritschl, unter dem Titel "The...
http://www.wiwo.de/politik/inflation-was-griechenland-von-weimar-lernen-kann/7649652.html|

Thousands struggling to eat, wash or leave their homes
Govtoday - scott.buckler@govtoday.co.uk - Jan 17 at 15:53 GMT
dressing or getting out the house. Leading academics at the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) within the London School of Economics, the same team commissioned by Andrew Dilnot in his review...
http://www.govtoday.co.uk/local-government/37-adult-children/14452-thousands-struggling-to-eat-wash-or-leave-their-homes|

An EU without Britain? Europe frets
NBCNews.com - Peter Jeary - Jan 17 at 15:50 GMT
left isolated at EU summits due to his opposition to various proposals. , of the European Institute at the London School of Economics, said a hard-line stance by Cameron could potentially result in "amendments...
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/17/16544778-an-eu-without-britain-europe-frets-ahead-of-key-speech-by-uks-david-cameron?lite|

Indian researcher bags Alzheimer''s drug discovery award
MSN.co.in - Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:54:34 GMT - Jan 17 at 13:59 GMT
on Alzheimers and epilepsy.He is currently pursuing a Masters in Health Policy, Planning and Financing at the London School of Economics (LSE) and was recently elected director of external relations of the...
http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=252004508|

College students honoured at ceremony
This is Local London - Jan 17 at 13:19 GMT
college's students of the year, was 18-year-old Risham Saif, who is now studying Actuarial Science at the London School of Economics. During her time at the college she achieved three A* and two A grades...
http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/whereilive/northeast/walthamforest/10167694.
College_students_honoured_at_ceremony/?ref=rss
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Sweden's Borg on Euro Crisis, U.K. Exit From EU
BusinessWeek - Jan 17 at 12:08 GMT
Swedish economy and the potential implications of the U.K. leaving the EU. Borg spoke yesterday at the London School of Economics. (Source: Bloomberg)
http://www.businessweek.com/videos/2013-01-17/swedens-borg-on-euro-crisis
-u-dot-k-dot-exit-from-eu
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New research exposes scale of Government’s social care crisis for disabled people
Sense UK - Jan 17 at 11:45 GMT
dressing or getting out the house. Leading academics at the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) within the London School of Economics, the same team commissioned by Andrew Dilnot in his review...
http://www.sense.org.uk/content/new-research-exposes-scale-government%E2%
80%99s-social-care-crisis-disabled-people
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Boom finanza creativa: e' caccia ai prodotti pericolosi (translate)
WallStreet Italia - Jan 17 at 11:27 GMT
usando un eufemismo. Dichiarazioni da leggere nella stessa direzione di quelle rilasciate da Paul De Grauwe, economista della London School of Economics quando ha sottolineato che il modello di banca di...
http://www.wallstreetitalia.com/article.aspx?IdPage=1484066|

Borg: ”Farligt säga krisen över” (translate)
SvD - Jan 17 at 8:39 GMT
regionen har ett år med "mager" utveckling framför sig. Det sade finansminister Anders Borg i ett tal på London School of Economics på onsdagen, enligt Bloomberg News. Vidare sade han att "vi inte bör vara...
http://www.svd.se/naringsliv/nyheter/sverige/borg-farligt-saga-att-krisen-ar-over_7833950.svd|

Things To Do In London Today: 17 January 2013
Londonist - M@ - Jan 17 at 7:28 GMT
and viewed upside-down in an under-water hall of mirrors. But never fear, for the ubiquitous Tony Travers of London School of Economics is at Barnard’s Hall, Holborn for a Gresham talk that will explain all...
http://londonist.com/2013/01/things-to-do-in-london-today-17-january-2013.php|

LSE on TV/radio

BBC Radio 4 (17 January 2013)
Professor Iain Begg discussed EU treaty reform.

Also on: BBC Foyle

BBC Radio 4 (17 January 2013)
Today
LSE is mentioned in regards to new research into the government's social care crisis for disabled people.

Also on: BBC Hereford and Worcester, BBC Gloucester, BBC Suffolk, BBC Lancashire, BBC Radio 3, BBC Essex, BBC 2 Radio, BBC London 94.9, BBC Cornwall, BBC Humberside, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Tees, BBC Foyle, BBC Sussex, BBC Newcastle, BBC Cambridgeshire, BBC Devon.

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