LSE in print
Do you take this man's name? I don't
The Sunday Times, 07/07/2013, p.6, Rosie Kinchen
Rebekah Wilson, who is researching the changing of names for her PhD at the London School of Economics, said more work on the topic was needed. "I would be interested to know whether the women in their thirties married in their thirties," she said.
In Bitcoin we trust
The Sunday Times, 07/07/2013, p.5, Oliver Shah
"The black market isn't just drugs and guns, it's about trading between two people without any middle man." Garrick Hileman, a London School of Economics PhD student and long-term supporter of the bitcoin, predicted a future for the currency determined more by practicality than utopian ideals. "Right now, bitcoin is the gold standard of online currency.”
World Diary
Financial Times, 08/07/2013, p.30, Simon Greaves
The London School of Economics holds a panel discussion on the secrets of Silicon Valley, examining its innovation culture.
Professor Geoffrey Pearson Criminologist noted for his research into violence among the young
The Independent, 08/07/2013, p.44, Dick Hobbs
he studied moral sciences (philosophy and psychology) then carried out postgraduate studies before working with people with disabilities in Sheffield, and later trained as a psychiatric social worker at the LSE before returning to Sheffield to practise. . Much of Pearson's early career was in social-work education and training, first as a lecturer at Sheffield Polytechnic, then at University College,
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-geoffrey-pearson-criminologist-noted-for-his-research-into-violence-among-the-young-8693631.html|
Blair put ex-Israeli officer on payroll
The Sunday Telegraph, 07/07/2013, p.14, Edward Malnick
A spokesman for Mr Blair said Miss Pollak, who has an MA in public management from the London School of Economics, worked on "public service reform" on a project not related to the Middle East, adding: "There are Palestinians who work for Tony Blair.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/10164523/Tony-Blair-hired-ex-
Israeli-army-intelligence-officer-despite-envoy-role.html|
Rake is wrong - we should leave the EU
The Sunday Telegraph, 07/07/2013, p.25, Unattributed
“The new president of the CBI wants more free trade, more efficiency, more enterprise, and more protection for the City of London. No Eurosceptic would argue with any of these aims. But we are more likely to achieve them outside the EU.” Letter from Professor Alan Sked, LSE.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/10163002/The-Governments-energy
-policy-should-put-Britains-needs-first.html|
Subletting agents 'rip off' landlords
The Sunday Times, 07/07/2013, p.13, Robin Henry
Daniel Burton, 25, dropped out of the London School of Economics to set up a rent-torent firm that lets 200 rooms in 40 properties and now generates profits of £2m a year.
THE TASTE OF TRUE FREEDOM
The Independent, 06/07/2013, p.23, Boyd Tonkin
in economics at the new Jadavpur University -aged 23. Chairs and accolades galore followed: the fellowship at Trinity; 11 years at the Delhi School of Economics (1961-1972); professorships at the LSE (he lived contentedly in and around Kentish Town, where his wide progressive circle included the Miliband family), Oxford and Harvard -and then the mastership back at Trinity.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/amartya-sen-the-
taste-of-true-freedom-8688089.html|
UNITE OF THE LONG KNIVES
The Daily Mirror, 06/07/2013, p.8, Tom Mctague
ED MILIBAND JOB: Leader of the Opposition AGE: 43 SUPPORTS: Leeds United EDUCATION: Haverstock Comprehensive School, Oxford, London School of Economics BACKGROUND: Labour government special advisor and Harvard lecturer before becoming an MP.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/falkirk-labour-selection-ed-miliband-2030618|
Norman MacKenzie
The Daily Telegraph, 06/07/2013, p.33, Unattributed
assistant editor in 1943 after being discharged from the RAF on health grounds. He had been recommended to the editor, Kingsley Martin, by Harold Laski, his former tutor at the LSE. He worked on the magazine for nearly 20 years before becoming an academic. It is not hard to understand why Orwell might have included MacKenzie on his list.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10162847/Norman-MacKenzie.html|
LSE online
Prozac Nation: Use of antidepressants in the UK has soared by 500% in the past 20 years
Mail Online UK (Web), 05/07/2013, Rachel Reilly
antidepressants across Europe increased by almost 20 per cent per year on average, with a corresponding 0.8 per cent annual reduction in the suicide rate. Researchers, including David McDaid from the London School of Economics and Political Science, said that data collected from 29 European countries over three decades provided 'strong evidence' that antidepressants are playing a key role in treatment
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2356902/Prozac-Nation-Use-antide
pressants-UK-soared-500-past-20-years.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490|
The big shift right
Kathimerini
The discrediting of Greece’s mainstream political parties, brought about by the four-year debt crisis, has opened a political can of worms by strengthening the hand of far-right extremists, says Nikos Skoutaris, a European constitutional law expert at the London School of Economics.
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite3_1_05/07/2013_507752|
Experts seek more funding for rent sector
Scotland on Sunday
It has appointed Professor Christine Whitehead and Kathleen Scanlon of the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research (CCHPR) and the London School of Economics to address the reasons why pension funds don't invest in building homes for ...
http://www.scotsman.com/scotland-on-sunday/business/experts-seek-more-
funding-for-rent-sector-1-2992311|
Renewed clashes in Egypt feared amid dispute over who should be prime minister
Washington Post - Jul 8 at 4:01 BST
state media reported that Ziad Bahaa Eldin, a PhD graduate of the London School of Economics and former head of the Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority, was a possible compromise choice as prime minister, with ElBaradei in the role of vice president...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/renewed-clashes-feared-amid-dispute-over-egyptian-prime-minister/2013/07/07/cb9e965e-e6f8-11e2-aa9f-c03a72e2d342_story.html?wprss=rss_world|
Egypt's Opposition Nominates New Premier
Wall Street Journal
With Egypt's economy in crisis, Mr. Bahaa-Eldin's strong economic credentials—he has a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics—earned him a spot on the short list for prime minister. Nour Party officials appear to have had a chance to get to know Mr.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732450740457859173007380
8300.html|
Hedging Surge Prompts India Central Bank Inquiry on Rupee Moves
Bloomberg - Jeanette Rodrigues & Santanu Chakraborty - Jul 8 at 4:40 BST
were more than $40 billion, according to a December report from the London School of Economics & Political Science, citing a 2010 survey by the Bank for International Settlements. Investors...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-08/hedging-surge-prompts-india-central-bank-inquiry-on-rupee-moves.html|
UPDATE 1-Egypt presidency says social democrat likely to be premier
Reuters - Jul 7 at 22:12 BST
48, an commercial lawyer with a doctorate in banking law from the London School of Economics, was head of Egypt's investment authority in the late years of ex-President Hosni Mubarak's rule during...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/07/egypt-protests-premier-idUSL6N0FD0QR20130707|
What do we fix first – environment or economy?
New Scientist - Fred Pearce - Jul 7 at 22:00 BST
financial casinos into researching climate change at Imperial College London and the London School of Economics.The synergies between financial and environmental crunches may be complex, but...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/07/egypt-protests-premier-idUSL6N0FD0QR20130707|
The elements of destruction
Herald Scotland - Rob Edwards - Jul 7 at 4:51 BST
policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics. "Only by urgently reducing global emissions will we be able to avoid the full consequences...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/07/egypt-protests-premier-idUSL6N0FD0QR20130707|
New leader, old challenges
Al Jazeera - Jul 7 at 20:05 BST
the Middle East Centre and a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics. "In principle I would say that the most politically oriented members of the coalition support...
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidesyria/2013/07/20137771337433
364.html|
Does Morsi ouster signal end of 'political Islam'?
USA Today - Jul 7 at 20:05 BST
" said Fawaz Gerges, head of the Middle East center at the London School of Economics.Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who runs a largely secular government and whose own forces are fighting...
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidesyria/2013/07/20137771337433
364.html|
Ziad Bahaa El-Din likely to be chosen as new Egyptian premier
Jerusalem Post - Jul 8 at 0:18 BST
48, an commercial lawyer with a doctorate in banking law from the London School of Economics, was head of Egypt's investment authority in the late years of ex-President Hosni Mubarak's rule during...
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report-Bahaa-El-Din-set-to-be-chosen-as-
Egypt-PM-ElBaradei-to-be-VP-319049|
Pete Bodharamik Goes Big On Broadband In Thailand
Forbes.com - Jul 8 at 5:27 BST
a billionaireâfirst at boarding school from age 11 and then at the London School of Economics earning a business degree. Neither one was directly involved in management during the decade of postponed...
http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml|
Overthrow of Egypt's Brotherhood sends Islamists across the Mideast scrambling
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Jul 7 at 22:19 BST
children' or branches," said Middle East analyst Fawaz Gerges of the London School of Economics. "I am not talking about the loss of power, but the setback to the moral argument that the Islamists somehow stand above the fray, are more competent...
http://www.startribune.com/politics/214540101.html|
Egypt overthrow shakes Islamists in the region
Sacramento Bee - Jul 7 at 22:11 BST
children' or branches," said Middle East analyst Fawaz Gerges of the London School of Economics. "I am not talking about the loss of power, but the setback to the moral argument that the Islamists...
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/07/07/5550417/egypt-overthrow-shakes-
islamists.html|
Coal, jobs and climate change the debate
Seattle Times - Jul 7 at 4:18 BST
unclear. Professors Geoffrey Heal of Columbia University and Antony Millner of the London School of Economics write: “While we are making incremental progress in characterizing the uncertainty in climate predictions, as well as how climate change...
http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2021323947_biztaltoncol07
xml.html?syndication=rss|
To prosper, Africa must listen to its young leaders
Uganda Daily Monitor - Jul 8 at 5:58 BST
noted ELA’s remarkable success. Using a randomised control trial, researchers from London School of Economics, University College London and the World Bank recorded positive effects on income...
http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/To-prosper--Africa-must-listen-to-its
-young-leaders/-/689364/1908276/-/3wrqwmz/-/index.html|
Robert Wade
The Standard - notices and features - Jul 8 at 0:36 BST
and features As promoted by the Fabians, Professor Robert Wade of the London School of Economics is speaking across the country on Inequality and the ills it causes. Inequality and the West – Capitalism at a Tipping Point Political economist Rob...
http://thestandard.org.nz/robert-wade/|
Making headlines one, five and 10 years ago this week
Financial News Online - Jul 8 at 0:45 BST
been chairman and chief executive, was to become a director of the London School of Economics, a role he gave up in early 2011 amid scrutiny of the university’s links with former Libyan dictator...
http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2013-07-08/making-headlines-one-five-and-
10-years-ago-this-week|
UAE-Canada relationship is stronger than ever
Khaleej Times - Jul 8 at 5:03 BST
the University of British Columbia and a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics some years later. The ambassador, who doubles as Canada’s first Special Envoy to the Organisation...
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/nationgeneral/2013/July/nationgeneral_July137.xml§ion=nation
general|
Mick Jagger's hair fetches £4000
BBC News
Shrimpton met Jagger when he was a student at the London School of Economics. Jagger, who is due to turn 70 this month, will play with his band in Hyde Park on Saturday as part of the British Summer Time festival. The gig comes almost 44 years to the ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23195474|
A Lock Of Rolling Stones Singer Mick Jagger's Hair, Which Was With Former ...
International Business Times
The hair was auctioned off by Jagger's former girlfriend, model Chrissie Shrimpton, who first met the singer when he was a student at the London School of Economics. The lock of hair comes in a paper envelope with the message 'Mick Jagger's hair after ...
http://www.ibtimes.com/lock-rolling-stones-singer-mick-jaggers-hair-which-was-
former-girlfriend-chrissie-shrimpton-sold|
Lock of Mick Jagger's hair sells for £4,000 at auction
NME - Jul 6 at 11:24 BST
ex-girlfriend Chrissie Shrimpton, who met Jagger while he was studying at the London School Of Economics. As Reuters report, the piece of hair reached double its pre-sale estimate and came...
http://www.nme.com/news/the-rolling-stones/71278|
Jaggers’ Hairy affair Artists hair sells for $6,000
Pakistan Today - Jul 8 at 4:23 BST
70 this month, dated Shrimpton while he was a student at the London School of Economics. The musician’s currently preparing to play in Hyde Park on Sunday as part of the British Summer Time festival
http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/07/08/news/entertainment/jaggers-hairy-
affair-artists-hair-sells-for-6000/|
Jagger’s hair fetches 4,000 pounds
Turkish Daily - Jul 7 at 14:37 BST
Faces charity. Shrimpton met Jagger when he was a student at the London School of Economics. Jagger, who is due to turn 70 this month, played with the Rolling Stones in Hyde Park on Saturday...
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/jaggers-hair-fetches-4000-pounds.aspx?pageID=238&nid=50201&NewsCatID=383|
Mick Jagger's Former Girlfriend Auctions His Hair For Charity
People Magazine
Chrissie Shrimpton, sister of the famed '60s-era model Jean Shrimpton, dated Jagger, now 69, in the early '60s, when he was attending the London School of Economics – and long before he became a global rock star. She was 17 when their romance started ...
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20714828,00.html|
Mick Jagger's hair sells for $6,000
CNN - Jul 5 at 16:32 BST
70 this month, dated Shrimpton while he was a student at the London School of Economics. The musician's currently preparing to play in Hyde Park on Sunday as part of the British Summer Time festival
http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/05/mick-jaggers-hair-sells-for-6000/|
Be vigilant to rumors on the economy
China Daily
In November 2008, the British queen asked why no one predicted the global financial crisis during a visit to the London School of Economics. Eight months later, the school's economists confessed in a letter to the queen that it was a collective failure ...
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2013-07/05/content_16739435.htm|
Business briefs for July 6
Sun Herald - Jul 6 at 5:11 BST
University of Maryland math graduate had a master's degree from the London School of Economics and a doctorate in economics from Yale University. She produced the state's Quarterly Economic Outlook...
http://www.sunherald.com/2013/07/05/4779729/business-briefs-for-july-6.html|
Gauteng carves out a niche in BPO with unique incentives (Part II)
The South African - Brett Petzer - Jul 5 at 18:36 BST
in the province through Contact in Gauteng.? In 2012 the London School of Economics (LSE) Outsourcing Unit found that the Western Cape BPO industry still dwarfs that of Gauteng (with 3,900...
http://www.thesouthafrican.com/gateway-to-africa/gauteng-carves-out-a-niche-in
-bpo-with-unique-incentives-part-ii.htm|
Nuevo gobierno egipcio busca primer ministro de consenso
Deutsche Welle - Jul 7 at 22:54 BST
el-Din, de 48 años, es un abogado con un doctorado en la London School of Economics y trabajó con el expresidente Hosni Mubarak durante un período de liberalización económica, aunque renunció...
http://www.dw.de/nuevo-gobierno-egipcio-busca-primer-ministro-de-consenso/a-16934709?maca=spa-rss-sp-top-547-rdf|
Wenn es in London Abend wird
Berner Zeitung - Jul 8 at 5:59 BST
viktorianischen Fenstern an seinem Bier nippt, studiert höchstwahrscheinlich an der LSE, der London School of Economics. Das Pub ist eines von drei auf dem Campus der renommierten Universität...
http://www.bernerzeitung.ch/leben/gesellschaft/Wenn-es-in-London-Abend-wird/story/13055768|
Educación: cambiarlo todo para que todo siga igual
El País - Jesús Fernández-Villaverde - Jul 7 at 0:10 BST
de FEDEA. Luis Garicano es catedrático de Economía y Estrategia en la London School of Economics y miembro de FEDEA.
http://economia.elpais.com/economia/2013/07/05/actualidad/1373017314_
030404.html|
Mecha de cabelo de Mick Jagger é leiloada por R$ 13 mil
Terra Brasil - Jul 6 at 23:06 BST
Jagger, a ex-modelo Chrissie Shrimpton, que o conheceu quando estudavam na faculdade London School Of Economics. O valor arrecadado será doado à instituição Changing Faces, que cuida de pacientes...
http://musica.terra.com.br/mecha-de-cabelo-de-mick-jagger-e-leiloada-por-r-13-mil,5d296409106bf310VgnVCM5000009ccceb0aRCRD.html|
Locke von Mick Jagger versteigert
FinanzNachrichten.de - Jul 5 at 21:48 BST
mit dem Rocker in den frühen 60ern, als dieser auf die London School of Economics ging, also lange bevor er ein Star wurde. Ihre Großmutter hatte die Locke von Jagger...
http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2013-07/27324594-locke-von-mick
-jagger-versteigert-003.htm|
Beteiligungsfonds: Schmale Renditen mit dem Schlumpf
Handelsblatt - Jul 5 at 16:14 BST
auch berüchtigste Hede-Fonds-Manager aller Zeiten: Als der junge Ungar 1949 an der London School of Economics ankam, hatte er schon viel durchgemacht.: Der Jude entkam den Nazis nur mit Mühe...
http://www.handelsblatt.com/finanzen/boerse-maerkte/anlagestrategie/beteiligungsfonds-schmale-renditen-mit-dem-schlumpf/8413816.html|
LSE on TV/Radio
BBC News (5 July)
News
Fawaz Gerges discusses the military intervention in Egypt
Also on:
CNN International Europe (5 July)
Connect the World
Sky News (6 July)
News
BBC Radio 4 (7 July)
Analysis
Fawaz Gerges comments on the crisis in Syria
BBC World (6 July)
Rendezvous with Zeinab Badawi
Interview with LSE graduate, Sara Menker.
BBC Radio 4 (6 July)
Moral Maze
Gwyn Prins discusses transparency in public life
BBC Humberside (6 July)
Mention of Ralph Miliband lecturing at LSE.