LSE in print
Hopeless case
The Daily Mirror, 21/03/2013, p.8, Prof John Van Reenen; Ed Balls
GEORGE Osborne delivered his fourth Budget yesterday. The backdrop is appalling - he slashed his growth forecasts for this year by half to just 0.6%. This is the slowest recovery for more than 100 years, with low wages, high inflation and debt rising till 2017-18.
Budget shows Tories' true colours
The Guardian, 21/03/2013, p.37, Unattributed
An open letter criticising yesterday’s budget signed by several prominent academics including Professor Ian Gough of LSE.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/20/budget-shows-tories-true-colours|
Three steps to stop global finance disintegrating
Financial Times, 21/03/2013, p.37, Howard Davies; Susan Lund
The writers are a professor at Sciences Po in Paris and a former director of the London School of Economics and partner at the McKinsey Global Institute We face a system where nations rely on domestic capital formation and concentrate risks in local banking systems.
Appointments
Times Higher Education, 21/03/2013, p. 29, Unattributed
Historian and award-winning author Timothy Snyder has been named the Philippe Roman chair in history and international affairs at the London School of Economics for 2013-14.
WHAT ARE YOU READING?
Times Higher Education, 21/03/2013, p. 51, Unattributed
Mary Evans, centennial professor in the Gender Institute, London School of Economics, is reading Simon Armitage’s Walking Home (Faber, 2012).
LSE online
Insight - Desperate for bailout, Cyprus plays risky geopolitical game
Reuters UK (Web), 21/03/2013, Unattributed
At worst, it could emerge with its financial system - by far the biggest contributor to the economy - in ruins along with relations with its closest allies. "Cyprus has always been complicated," said James Ker-Lindsay, a senior fellow at the London School of Economics and expert on the 50-year-old conflict between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. "But this is by far the most complex it has been. "They are in trouble. They may not want to make these decisions, they know they have to. "The implications go well beyond Cyprus. Images of shuttered banks and queues at cash points could spark bank runs elsewhere in Europe, endangering the stability of the single currency.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/03/20/uk-eurozone-cyprus-geopolitics-insight-idUKBRE92J11G20130320|
Mehdi Hasan: The Boy Who Cried Growth: The Empty Rhetoric of George Osborne
Huffington Post UK, 20/03/2013, Mehdi Hasan
Sushil Wadhwani, founder and CEO of Wadhwani Asset Management and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, told me, "what you have to do is be very aggressive and change expectations. And then the debt will take care itself. The best way to deal with leverage is to get some growth...quickly and aggressively."
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mehdi-hasan/budget-george-osborne_b_2914265.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-politics?ncid=GEP|
Fancy seeing you here! Monica Lewinsky makes a surprise appearance at Heather Kerzner's birthday party
Mail Online UK (Web), 20/03/2013, Hanna Flint
and high society with a touch of celebrity to add to the celebrations. And the capital isn't a strange town for the former TV host who studied social psychology at the London School of Economics in 2005 after she couldn't escape the spotlight in America. But despite saying she wants to stay out of the public eye, Monica may be heading back
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2296298/Monica-Lewinsky-makes
-surprise-appearance-Heather-Kerzners-birthday-party.html|
China's Global Embrace
TheTyee.ca - Mar 21 at 5:19 GMT
to its pre-1949 policy of learning all it could from the outside world. Westad, a professor at the London School of Economics, clearly knows China's history and its relations with its neighbours. In the...
http://thetyee.ca/Books/2013/03/21/China-Global-Embrace/|
Act now against new NHS competition regulations
British Medical Journal - Mar 21 at 5:04 GMT
Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Walter Holland, Emeritus professor of public health medicine, London School of Economics and Political Science, David Evans, professor...
http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f1819|
America getting skyscraper envy as Saudi Arabia plans tallest building in the world
CNN - Mar 21 at 2:12 GMT
Because it's not just the world's tallest buildings moving east. Danny Quah, a professor at the London School of Economics, has calculated that the world's economic center – measured by looking at income averages...
http://outfront.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/20/america-getting-skyscraper-envy-as
-saudi-arabia-plans-tallest-building-in-the-world/|
Jones and Stewart were right and remain right
Local Government Chronicle - Mar 21 at 2:10 GMT
In the meantime, the case for decentralisation must continue to be made.Tony Travers, director, Greater London Group, London School of Economics We hope you enjoyed the above article. To get unlimited...
http://www.lgcplus.com/opinion/jones-and-stewart-were-right-and-remain-right/5056321.article?referrer=RSS|
UK urged to cut carbon emissions with natural gas use
Applegate - Mar 20 at 22:22 GMT
according to a report published this week. The Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics say that carbon emissions could be cut if the country turned more...
http://www.applegate.co.uk/b2b-news-articles/uk-urged-cut-carbon-emissions
-natural-gas-use-0054534.htm|
Monica’s Come A Long Way From The White House! Lewinsky Hangs Out With The Royals In London
Radar Online - Alexis Tereszcuk - Entertainment Editor - Mar 20 at 20:53 GMT
For Socialite’s Birthday Monica fled the United States after her scandal became public knowledge and attended the London School of Economics in 2005. She is reportedly in talks to receive a $12 million...
http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2013/03/monica-lewinsky-london-photos/|
Section 112 hurts more than helps monarchy
Bangkok Post - Mar 20 at 20:40 GMT
potest peccare", or "The King can do no wrong".Songkran Grachangnetara is an entrepreneur. He graduated from The London School of Economics and Columbia University. He can be reached at Twitter: @SongkranTalk
http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/341599/section-112-hurts-more-
than-helps-monarchy|
Squeezed middle battles financial pain
Financial Times - Sarah Neville, Public Policy Editor - Mar 20 at 15:59 GMT
change the pattern of inequality since the turn of the century, says Steve Machin, research director at the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance. During the 1980s and 1990s, he says...
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0257d66a-8f0b-11e2-a39b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2OAEMXJOL|
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Marin Raykov issues orders for appointment of deputy ministers
Focus Bulgaria - Mar 20 at 15:47 GMT
International Affairs from Columbia University, New York, MA in social anthropology and Ph.D. in sociology from the London School of Economics. In recent years he has worked as a senior analyst at the Center...
http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n302199|
Monica Lewinsky pops up in London
Daily News Journal - Mar 20 at 15:30 GMT
with President Bill Clinton from 1995 to 1996 -- moved to London in 2005 to study at the London School of Economics. She got her Masters of Science in Social Psychology in December 2006. But we haven't seen...
http://www.dnj.com/usatoday/article/2002539|
The lost homelands (translate)
Eesti Elu - Mar 20 at 15:16 GMT
in the past 20 years, certainly hope so. I have just been to two ‘émigré’ events at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) – one organised by its Baltic societies, another by the Polish...
http://www.eesti.ca/the-lost-homelands/article38961|
Beverly Hills Cosmetic Dentist, Dr. Mirani, Now Offers Porcelain Veneers
Individual.com - Mar 20 at 14:17 GMT
A beautiful smile can play a major role in a person's success. According to the London School of Economics, attractiveness has a positive relationship with intelligence, and other studies have revealed that...
http://www.individual.com/storyrss.php?story=172865895&hash=101261f882f0dc544a150cd5b11b524c|
From Juvenile Delinquent to Start-Up Genius
Trentonian.com - Mar 20 at 13:04 GMT
professor at the University of California's Hass School of Business and Rubinstein is a professor at the London School of Economics. In a study, Does Entrepreneurship Pay?, they note previous research telling...
http://business-news.thestreet.com/the-trentonian/story/from-juvenile-delinquent
-to-start-up-genius/11874575|
Medford Native Meets Bill Rodgers, Zoo New England Marathon Team
Medford Patch - Mar 20 at 11:41 GMT
was eight years old. Laura attended George Washington University for undergrad and University of Southern California and London School of Economics for her Masters. She has been Legislative Aid for State...
http://medford.patch.com/announcements/medford-native-meets-with-bill-
rodgers-and-zoo-new-england-marathon-team|
Social media expert to give lecture
Times of Malta - Mar 20 at 8:45 GMT
fourth Mabel Strickland Memorial Lecture next week.Prof. Beckett, a founding director of a journalism think-tank at the London School of Economics, will be speaking on How Social Is Social Media? The Impact...
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130320/local/social-media-expert
-to-give-lecture.462166|
Le vendredi 22 février, j’ai quitté Londres pour Dubaï pour participer une conférence organisée par le Centre du Moyen-Orient de la London School of Economics (LSE), où je travaille, et (translate)
Courier International - Mar 21 at 5:00 GMT
ai quitté Londres pour Dubaï pour participer à une conférence organisée par le Centre du Moyen-Orient de la London School of Economics (LSE), où je travaille, et l’université américaine de Sharjah (AUS) dans...
http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2013/03/21/universites-le-masque
-tombe|
La austeridad y el papel del BCE (translate)
El País - Manuel de la Rocha Vázquez - Mar 20 at 23:16 GMT
la mera advertencia de que lo haría de ser necesario.En un reciente artículo, el profesor de la London School of Economics, Paul de Grauwe, demuestra que el incremento de las primas fue el resultado del..
http://elpais.com/elpais/2013/03/19/opinion/1363724528_034195.html|
Európsky parlament súhlasí s bankovým dohľadom ECB (translate)
EurActiv.sk - Mar 20 at 22:01 GMT
bojovať samy. „Je to takmer fatálny úder pre bankovú úniu,“ reagoval pre Reuters ekonóm Paul de Grauwe z London School of Economics. „Jedným z kľúčových elementov bankovej únie je systém vzájomnej pomoci a znášanie
http://www.euractiv.sk/hospodarske-riadenie-eu/clanok/europsky-parlament-
suhlasi-s-bankovym-dohladom-ecb-020858|
El Colectivo Wilson insta a pactar la "inevitable" independencia de Catalunya (translate)
La Vanguardia - Mar 20 at 21:11 GMT
de Economía de la Universidad de Harvard; Carles Boix, de la Universidad de Princeton; Gerard Padró, de la London School of Economics and Political Science, y Jaume Ventura, investigador del Centro de Investigación...
http://www.lavanguardia.com/economia/20130320/54369457668/colectivo-
wilson
-pide-elites-pactar-inevitable-independencia.html|
Un grupo de economistas ve viable la independencia y deplora el catastrofismo (translate)
El Economista.es - Mar 20 at 20:07 GMT
de Economía de la Universidad de Harvard; Carles Boix, de la Universidad de Princeton; Gerard Padró, de la London School of Economics and Political Science, y Jaume Ventura, investigador del Centro de Investigación...
http://ecodiario.eleconomista.es/politica/noticias/4689805/03/13/Un-grupo-de-economistas-ve-viable-la-independencia-y-deplora-el-catastrofismo.html|
Mari Pangestu Kunjungi Inggris Bahas Pencalonan WTO (translate)
Metro TV News - Mar 20 at 17:51 GMT
ke London kali ini, Mari Pangestu juga berkesempatan menyampaikan kuliah umum mengenai pandangan Indonesia terhadap keberadaan WTO di London School of Economics (LSE). Selain bertemu dengan the City UK yang...
http://www.metrotvnews.com/metronews/read/2013/03/21/2/140085/-Mari-
Pangestu-Kunjungi-Inggris-Bahas/|
Diez acciones para la felicidad (translate)
BBC Mundo - Mar 20 at 16:18 GMT
la felicidad de otros, tendremos un mundo con mayor cohesión", asegura Richard Layard, economista y profesor emérito del London School of Economics.Layard es uno de los fundadores de Action for Happiness...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias/2013/03/130320_acciones_dia_
internacional_felicidad_am.shtml|
Italia: Beppe Grillo, a la conquista de Europa (translate)
Presseurop - Mar 20 at 15:39 GMT
Italia no sólo ha dado paso a los payasos”, comenta Jonathan Hopkin, profesor de política comparada en la London School of Economics and Foreign Affairs. Responde con firmeza a The Economist, que había interpretado...
http://www.presseurop.eu/es/content/article/3564891-beppe-grillo-la-
conquista-de-europa?xtor=RSS-18|
LSE on TV/radio
BBC Radio 4 (19/03/2013)
For One Night Only
Brief mention of fact that Mick Jagger studied at LSE.