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Editorial: The case for amnesty is political, too
The Independent, 28/06/2013, p.16, Unattributed
First, mass deportation; second, the status quo; and third, amnesty. The first won’t happen; the second is ineffective; and the third has costs and benefits. One cost is that it might be seen to reward illegal behaviour; another is that it would encourage further migration. The evidence for both is limited. The benefits, however, are clear. The London School of Economics has estimated that taking illegal immigrants – many of whom have been here for more than a decade – out of the shadows could reduce criminality and generate £3bn in taxation.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/the-case-for-amnesty-is-political-too-8676754.html|
Grant all illegal immigrants an amnesty, says Conservative MP
The Independent, 28/06/2013, p.14, Nigel Morris
In 2009, study by the London School of Economics an amnesty for long-term illegal immigrants could be worth £3bn to the economy. It also said migration would not increase because the UK has no land borders, except between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/grant-all-illegal-immigrants-an-
amnesty-says-conservative-mp-nadhim-zahawi-8677600.html?origin=internalSearch|
Grant illegal immigrants an amnesty, says Tory MP
i (The paper for today), 28/06/2013, p.5, Nigel Morris
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/grant-all-illegal-immigrants-an-
amnesty-says-conservative-mp-nadhim-zahawi-8677600.html?origin=internalSearch|
Diary: The most transparent government ever, they said. Forget it!
The Guardian, 28/06/2013, p.45, Hugh Muir
Finally, not me guv, says our anti-EU friend, professor Alan Sked. Contemporaries swear blind that he pitched up to an undergrad revue at the London School of Economics in a cherry-red cupid suit. He says not. "I have never ever owned or worn a velvet suit of any colour and probably couldn't fire an arrow." Inquiries continue. But he won't be forwarding the argument that such japery was beneath him. "While running a large student residential complex I helped organise student parties there, including vicar and tarts and perverts parties," he tells us.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jun/27/hugh-muir-diary-edward-snowden|
The curse of cheap money
Investors Chronicle, 28/06/2013, p.12, Unattributed
UK productivity has been stagnant for years; GDP per worker is lower now than it was at the start of 2007. Could it be that the global savings glut of the 00s is partly to blame for this? That is the question posed in a new paper by Luca Fornaro and Gianluca Benigno, two economists at the LSE.
http://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/2013/06/24/comment/chris-dillow/the-cheap-
money-curse-2E6HGJb2SltEiV5nVdiZCK/article.html|
When labor is flexible, and paid less
International Herald Tribune, 28/06/2013, p.2, Chrystia Freeland
That’s why a recent paper by Joao Paulo Pessoa and John Van Reenen, both of the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, makes such fascinating reading. Mr. Van Reenen and Mr. Pessoa set out to unravel the two big mysteries about Britain’s economic performance over the past five years. The backdrop to both is the devastation that Britain, with its oversize banking sector, suffered in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. “The big story in the U.K. is that the economy has shrunk by 2.5 percent since the pre-crisis period,” Mr. Van Reenen told me. “That’s the longest depressed economy in this country for more than a hundred years.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/world/europe/28iht-letter28.html?_r=0|
LSE online
In pursuit of happiness
FT.com (Web), 27/06/2013, Unattributed
Over the past decade, Easterlin’s core premise has been expanded upon by research in other fields. In Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, Richard Layard, a professor at the London School of Economics, proposed seven areas that could explain the paradox, and that should be the focus of policy makers – family relationships, friends, employment, financial situation, health, personal freedom and “personal values”. Layard does not dismiss money – and as a labour economist stresses the misery caused by unemployment – but the Easterlin paradox is an important assumption behind his work.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/904e5e50-d941-11e2-a6cf-00144feab7de.html#axzz2XUhDUJYN|
Classroom economics
FT.com (Web), 27/06/2013, Unattributed
Amid this uncertainty, one thing is clear: the emerging world will only become more important. The resignation in 2011 of Howard Davies as director of the London School of Economics following the fall of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, from which it had accepted donations, is a warning for those eyeing oil-rich Middle East and Maghreb nations. However, universities are cultivating alumni networks in the Far East.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/304a6a34-d93d-11e2-a6cf-00144feab7de.html#axzz2XUhDUJYN|
COLUMN-Mysteries of the middle class-Chrystia Freeland
Reuters UK (Web), 27/06/2013, Chrystia Freeland
the middle class by weakening its political bargaining power. That's why a recent paper by Joao Paulo Pessoa and John Van Reenen, both of the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, makes such fascinating reading. Van Reenen and Pessoa set out to unravel the two big mysteries about Britain's economic performance over the past five years. The
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/06/27/column-freeland-idUKL2N0F31QE20130
627?feedType=RSS&feedName=rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews|
Leader: Mackenzie, a great Statesman
New Statesman (Web), 27/06/2013, Unattributed
Norman Mackenzie, who has died aged 91, joined the New Statesman as assistant editor in 1943, having been recommended to the then editor, Kingsley Martin, by Harold Laski at the LSE. Norman worked on the paper for nearly 20 years before becoming an academic at Sussex University. He helped found the Open University, edited the diaries of Beatrice Webb and was the author of biographies of Charles Dickens and H G Well
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/culture/2013/06/leader-mackenzie-great-statesman|
Stirring words stay secret
Calcutta Telegraph - Jun 28 at 0:31 BST
and employment generation among the young. Yesterday, I went to the LSE ( London School of Economics) to see if we can have a tie-up with them, he said. Our boys and girls need skills development...
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130628/jsp/northeast/story_17056153.jsp|
King Recovers From Northern Rock Stumble to Leave Powerful BOE
BusinessWeek - Jun 28 at 0:24 BST
studied at Cambridge University and Harvard, moved to the BOE from the London School of Economics, where he worked on macroeconomics and tax policy. As King was promoted to deputy governor...
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-06-27/king-recovers-from-northern-rock-stumble-to-leave-powerful-boe|
No 1997 Asian Crisis Return as China Trembles: Cutting Research
BusinessWeek - Jun 28 at 0:24 BST
CentrePiece, the magazine of the London-based Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. Using smartphone technology, Alex Bryson of the National Institute of Economic...
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-06-27/no-1997-asian-crisis-return-as-
china-trembles-cutting-research|
Portuguese work 400 hours more than Germans
Portugal News - Jun 27 at 22:57 BST
lot more, but unfortunately, produce very little with this work”, explained the London School of Economics graduate. “Generally this signifies a lack of a clear strategy which helps...
http://theportugalnews.com/news/portuguese-work-400-hours-more-than-germans/28721|
Paul Taylor: Time to shape up politics
The Gulf Today - Jun 27 at 22:20 BST
next five years,” said Simon Hix, professor of European governance at the London School of Economics. “It will be the first time we, as European citizens, can choose who holds the most powerful...
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/38e8b7f2-29d3-4849-ae4f-dece59fcabb9.aspx|
Mysteries of the middle class: Chrystia Freeland
Yahoo! Finance - Jun 27 at 20:20 BST
John Van Reenen, both of the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, makes such fascinating reading. Van Reenen and Pessoa set out to unravel the two big mysteries...
http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/wirtschaft/wirtschaftsnachrichten/abschied-von-gouverneur-mervyn-king-1.18107069|
Calls for ICT to reconnect in Kuwait
Kuwait Times - Jun 27 at 19:04 BST
some of the same challenges. In a 2012 report published by the London School of Economics, researchers Hendrik Kraetzschmar and El Mustapha Lahlali found that Kuwait’s e-government service development...
http://news.kuwaittimes.net/calls-for-ict-to-reconnect-in-kuwait/|
What happens to Big Oil if we’re forced to cut back on consumption?
Globe and Mail - Jun 27 at 18:21 BST
Tracker and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, part of the London School of Economics, issued a paper called “Unburnable Carbon 2013: Wasted Capital and Stranded Assets.” The...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/what-happens-
to-big-oil-if-were-forced-to-cut-back-on-consumption/article12829874/|
Thatcher’s legacy: labour pain, and gain
Globe and Mail - MICHAEL MARRAY - Jun 27 at 17:33 BST
John Van Reenen, director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. Whereas in 1979 two-thirds of British workers had their wages set by trade unions, today the...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/canada-competes/thatchers-legacy-labour-pain-and-gain/article12859063/?cmpid=rss1|
Home Office: New members of Animals in Science Committee to hold first meeting
PoliticsHome - Jun 27 at 13:35 BST
of Exeter; • Dr Simon Glendinning, Reader in European Philosophy, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science; • Dr Huw Golledge, Senior Research Associate at the...
http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/80925/home_office_new_members_of_
animals_in_science_committee_to_hold_first_meeting.html|
Weiner Leads in Polls While...
Time - Jun 27 at 11:05 BST
and the occasional daytime talk show appearance. Even her degree from the London School of Economics couldn’t be taken seriously (FROM THONG TO THESIS, and so on…) For Lewinsky (and Paula Broadwell and Jill Kelley and Rielle Hunter,) the best post-scandal...
http://ideas.time.com/2013/06/27/weiner-leads-in-polls-while-his-sext-recipients-get-harassed-double-standard-anyone/|
Colombia president Juan Manuel Santos: All wars have to end
Gulf News - Jun 27 at 10:34 BST
and the president resumes his inscrutable poise.Santos, 61, studied at the London School of Economics and, like many well-bred Colombians, has a strand of anglophilia. Indeed, he is a ?gent?...
http://gulfnews.com/about-gulf-news/al-nisr-portfolio/weekend-review/colombia-president-juan-manuel-santos-all-wars-have-to-end-1.1202612?utm_content=1.1202612&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Feeds&utm_campaign
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Fearful parents look overseas
Hong Kong Standard - Jun 27 at 8:25 BST
from July 6-7. They include the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and the London School of Economics and Political Science. While Oxford and Cambridge will provide onsite applications and...
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=4&art_id=134974&sid=39874963&con_type=1&d_str=20130627&fc=7|
Abschied von Gouverneur Mervyn King (translate)
Neue Zürcher Zeitung - Jun 28 at 5:05 BST
Mit Fleiss, Talent und Glück arbeitete er sich zum Ökonomieprofessor an der London School of Economics hoch. Aus einem geplanten Abstecher als Chefökonom der nahe gelegenen BoE im Jahre 1991...
http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/wirtschaft/wirtschaftsnachrichten/abschied-von-gouverneur-mervyn-king-1.18107069|