LSE in print
When hitting targets misses the point
International New York Times, 25/03/2015, p.16, Eduardo Porter
The dynamic is best known as Goodhart's Law, after the British economist Charles Goodhart. Luis Garicano at the London School of Economics calls it the Heisenberg Principle of incentive design, after the defining uncertainty of quantum physics: A performance metric is only useful as a performance metric as
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/25/business/economy/grading-teachers-by-the-test.html?_r=0
Inspiration v perspiration: economists divided over agent of Singapore miracle
Financial Times, 25/03/2015, p.8, Ferdinando Giugliano
Yew's Singapore is an economic twin of the growth of Stalin's Soviet Union". Prof Krugman's remarks were based largely on research by Alwyn Young, a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, who sought to understand what exactly drove economic growth in Singapore between the 1960s and the 1990s. He found that, much like in the Soviet Union,
http://blogs.ft.com/the-world/2015/03/singapores-miracle-uncovered/
St Nic
The Sun (Scotland)*, 25/03/2015, p.8, Chris Musson; Matt Bendoris
The poll was conducted after Ms Sturgeon mounted a charm offensive with that storming performance at the London School of Economics that left the Press drooling. That has been followed by interviews with ITV breakfast host Lorraine Kelly, Susanna Reid on Good Morning Britain, Question Time and
LSE on TV/Radio
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BBC Merseyside, 24/03/2015
Mention of LSE report on wages and immigration.
LSE online
Google just hired a major banker as its new CFO
City AM (Web), 24/03/2015, Lynsey Barber
She led the bank’s team advising the US Treasury on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the New York Federal Reserve Bank on AIG. The Stanford, Wharton and London School of Economics grad was lead banker on finance rounds for the likes of Amazon, eBay, Netscape, Priceline and Verisign as well as Blackstone Group, GE and the New
http://www.cityam.com/212347/google-just-hired-morgan-stanley-finance-chief-ruth-porat-its-new-cfo
Google turns to Wall Street for new finance chief
Mail Online UK (Web), 24/03/2015, Unattributed
start the new job May 26, has a bachelor's degree from Stanford University, an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and another master's degree from the London School of Economics. "We're tremendously fortunate to have found such a creative, experienced and operationally strong executive," said Google chief executive Larry Page in a statement. "I look forward
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3009431/Google-names-finance-chief-replace-Pichette.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Wall Street Women Heading to Silicon Valley Could Narrow Gap
Bloomberg, 25/03/2015
Porat has an undergraduate degree from Standford University and graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and the Wharton School ...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-25/wall-street-women-heading-to-silicon-valley-could-narrow-gap
Google names finance chief to replace Pichette (AFP)
Yahoo!Xtra - 24 Mar 2015 14:02
of the University of Pennsylvania and another master's degree from the London School of Economics. "We're tremendously fortunate to have found such a creative, experienced and operationally...
https://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/technology/26790114/google-names-finance-chief-to-replace-pichette/
Google names new finance chief
The Australian - 24 Mar 2015 22:20
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'Naughty pupils could be more at risk under academies,' report warns
Telegraph (Web), 24/03/2015, Javier Espinoza
Naughty children could be more likely to be expelled under academies because of their freedoms on admissions and exclusions, a new policy paper by LSE. The paper questioned whether in an education system where academies have been “massively expanded” by the current coalition government, badly-behaved students or pupils with special needs could be
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/11492250/Naughty-pupils-could-be-more-at-risk-under-academies-report-warns.html
Barbara Wollaston obituary
Guardian.com (Web), 24/03/2015, Helen Wollaston
her view it was nearly always down to the police when trouble occurred at any of her club evenings. She gained a sociology degree in the mid-1950s from the London School of Economics as a mature student, before joining a pioneering ecumenical project in Woolwich, south east London. After working with the Greater London Churches’ Consultative Group and the
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/24/barbara-wollaston-obituary
Students occupy Central St Martins in protest against cuts
Guardian.com (Web), 24/03/2015, Unattributed
We don’t have any phones – just laptops.” The action follows an occupation at the London School of Economics (LSE), where students occupied a central administration room at the university, in protest of what they call “the marketisation of higher education.”
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/mar/24/students-occupy-central-st-martins-in-protest-against-cuts
Students swap claps for jazz hands
BBC (Web), 25/03/2015, Unattributed
Delegates have told Newsbeat "it's a nice way to show solidarity". Nona Buckley-Irvine is general secretary at the London School of Economics Students' Union (LSE SU). She told Newsbeat: "Jazz hands are used throughout NUS in place of clapping as a way to show appreciation of someone's point
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/32032291
Feminist conference says clapping 'triggers anxiety,' asks attendees to use 'jazz hands' instead
Washington Times , 24/03/2015
... or causing disturbance, as it can create anxiety,” said Nona Buckley-Irvine, general secretary at the London School of Economics Students' Union.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/24/feminist-conference-says-clapping-triggers-anxiety/
Exceptional speakers of different styles
The Straits Times
After my years at the London School of Economics, I was not unfamiliar with political speeches. But it struck me that here were two exceptional ...
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/exceptional-speakers-different-styles-20150325
Why the next George Soros will probably be a refugee
Comment is free | The Guardian - John Skoyles - 24 Mar 2015 12:56
this gift: in interviews, he has said that he used his former London School of Economics tutor Karl Popper’s method of conjecture and refutation: putting forward a hypothesis about where the market will move, and then trying his best to refute it...
Nusra Front quietly rises in Syria as Islamic State targeted
Japan Times - 25 Mar 2015 04:48
said Fawaz A. Gerges, director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics, using an alternate acronym for the extremist group. The Islamic State group helped create the Nusra...
Nusra Front quietly rises as ISIS bears the brunt of attacks
Lebanon Daily Star - Bassem Mroue - 24 Mar 2015 22:09
said Fawaz A. Gerges, director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics. ISIS helped create the Nusra Front, providing financing, manpower and military hardware in 2012. But...
Nusra Front quietly rises in Syria as Islamic State targeted
Philippine Star - 24 Mar 2015 20:03
said Fawaz A. Gerges, director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics, using an alternate acronym for the extremist group. The Islamic State group helped create the Nusra...
Al-Qaeda Nusra Front uses Western focus on Isis to consolidate position in Syria
International Business Times UK - Tom Porter - 24 Mar 2015 17:17
" Fawaz A Gerges, director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics, told AP. A Syria-based western diplomat told the agency that al-Nusra stepped up its campaign against...
Nusra Front’s growing Syria foothold
Gulf Time UAE - 24 Mar 2015 17:04
said Fawaz A Gerges, director of the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics. The IS group helped create the Nusra Front, providing financing, manpower and military hardware in...
LTCM Quant’s New Take on What Long-Term Is Supposed to Mean
Washington Post - 25 Mar 2015 03:34
Elm began when a family friend asked Haghani, who taught at the London School of Economics after leaving LTCM, for advice on managing savings. After co-authoring a research paper on the subject...
LTCM Quant’s New Take on What Long-Term Is Supposed to Mean
La Repubblica - 25 Mar 2015 03:32
Las reparaciones de guerra pendientes (translate)
El Sol de México - 24 Mar 2015 12:52
ocupación", resume el historiador de la economía Albrecht Ritschl, profesor en la London School of Economics. El problema es que esas compensaciones no tuvieron en cuenta otra deuda, esta vez...
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El exministro de Finanzas de Papandreu se salva de la cadena perpetua (translate)
ABC.es - begoña castiella - 25 Mar 2015 02:47
chivo expiatorio de Papandreu Papaconstantinu es un economista que estudió en la London School of Economics, donde obtuvo su doctorado en Ciencias Económicas y trabajó durante años en la OCDE...
Quant Who Shook the Financial World Tries More Humble Approach
Bloomberg - Yuji Nakamura - 25 Mar 2015 02:33
Elm began when a family friend asked Haghani, who taught at the London School of Economics after leaving LTCM, for advice on managing savings. After co-authoring a research paper on the subject...
First among equals
Asiaone - 24 Mar 2015 23:45
war, Mr Lee left for England. He spent a term at the London School of Economics, picking up socialist idealism from renowned professor Harold Laski, before moving to Cambridge because he disliked...
Iran expands Persian and Shiite ‘Empire’ – Arab leaders alarmed at Iran’s push to tighten regional grip
Kuwait Times - Kuwait Times - 24 Mar 2015 19:27
of its regional impact,” says Fawaz Gerges, Middle East expert at the London School of Economics. “The US deal with Iran would deeply intensify a new cold war that has been unfolding between...
How Brad Pitt Supported Angelina Jolie During Her Latest Surgery to Prevent Cancer
People - Michelle Tauber, @michelletauber - 24 Mar 2015 19:23
work, including launching the Centre on Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics in February and visiting a Kurdish refugee camp in northern Iraq in January. In fact, her...
New vocational research centre ‘won’t clash’ with Education and Training Foundation
FE Week - Rebecca Cooney - 24 Mar 2015 18:40
the Education and Training Foundation (ETF). At a launch event at the London School of Economics (LSE) today Frank Bowley, deputy director of skills policy analysis at the Department for Business...
Lee Kuan Yew, Father of the Singapore Miracle
National Review - 24 Mar 2015 18:35
British colonialism, the Japanese occupation, the experience of post-war Cambridge and the London School of Economics (where he was known, as always to his family and friends, as “Harry”), a...
Treasury to take steps in preventing currency misuse
Big News Network - 24 Mar 2015 18:34
securely without a trusted third party.Garrick Hileman, economic historian at the London School of Economics, told the Financial Times: "The ?10m in funding for digital currency research demonstrates...
Capital-markets union faces hurdles in EU
Shanghai Daily - Howard Davies - 24 Mar 2015 18:24
Authority, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, and Director of the London School of Economics, is a professor at Sciences Po in Paris. Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2015.
Monica Lewinsky: Fui la primera persona humillada en Internet (translate)
El Nacional - 24 Mar 2015 18:22
de la revolución digital”, dijo la licenciada en Psicología Social por la London School of Economics, quien en octubre pasado dio una charla organizada por la revista Forbes , centrándose en...
How Much Sprawl Costs America
The Atlantic Cities - Tanvi Misra - 24 Mar 2015 17:27
Flickr/lindenbaum More and more young people are moving to urban centers because they prefer to live in walkable areas with lots of public transportation options. Still, developers are reluctant...
Monica Lewinsky’s new life as a cyberbullying activist
Chatelaine - 24 Mar 2015 17:00
didn’t approve. Even earning a masters in social psychology from the London School of Economics didn’t confer gravitas. She had no luck securing a long-term job “because of what potential...
LSE students: No fees, no cuts—Occupy!
Socialist Worker - 24 Mar 2015 16:59
to stop course cuts and to demand free education. Protesters at the London School of Economics (LSE) occupied on Tuesday of last week and demanded LSE bosses lobby the government to scrap...
Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism is a Study in Itself
Israel National News - 24 Mar 2015 16:34
was an opportunity for professional Israel haters to air their views, namely London School of Economics’ Dr John Chalcraft, who refers to Israel as an apartheid state, and Philip Marfleet, of...
Dangers of Short-Term Investing
Morningstar UK - 24 Mar 2015 15:05
Emma Wall and here with me today is Paul Woolley from the London School of Economics to discuss how short termism creates anomalies in the market. Hello, Paul. Paul Woolley: Hello. Wall: So...
Jeremy Clarkson and the Waldorf Sal...
Money Week - 24 Mar 2015 14:51
up costing Bernie a lot less.” • “A new report from the London School of Economics shows that the capital’s richest people have emerged four times wealthier from the 2008 recession, while...
Aardwetenschappen VU sluit aan bij studentenprotest (translate)
Headlinez.nl - 24 Mar 2015 14:44
zelfs zeven Maagdenhuisbezetters naar Londen afgereisd om daar de bezetting van de London School of Economics te steunen.
Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s college at Cambridge pays tribute
Today Online - 24 Mar 2015 14:43
father, he will be deeply missed.” Mr Lee transferred to Cambridge from London School of Economics and went on to graduate top of his cohort, above two contemporaries who became Professors...
Austerity hits poor, migrant children hardest – parliamentary report
Russia Today - 24 Mar 2015 14:19
precarious crossroads’ in Britain – watchdog A report recently published by the London School of Economics (LSE), the University of Manchester and the University of York, ‘Social Policy...
Perjuangan Idealis Pragmatis Lee Kuan Yew (translate)
Metro TV News - 24 Mar 2015 13:52
mengambil langkah yang lumayan pragmatis; menuntut ilmu setinggi-tingginya di Inggris. Beliau masuk London School of Economics pada 1946 kemudian melanjutkan di Cambridge sebelum meraih sarjana...
Luna de miel bancaria: no sin advertencias (translate)
Forbes Mexico - Invitado Forbes - 24 Mar 2015 13:45
y maestro en políticas comparadas y en política social, ambas por la London School of Economics and Political Science. Actualmente es Investigador del Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias y doctorando...
EU referendum: the pros and cons of Britain leaving the EU
The Week UK - 24 Mar 2015 13:44
this prevents the UK "managing its own borders". But, writing for the LSE , Professor Adrian Favell says limiting this freedom would deter the "brightest and the best" of the continent from coming to Britain, create complex new immigration controls...
Handelsblatt: Γιατί εξαφανίστηκε ο Γ. Βαρουφάκης; (translate)
Sigma Live - 24 Mar 2015 13:27
τόσο στο εσωτερικό όσο και στο εξωτερικό», σχολιάζει ο Σπύρος Οικονομίδης του London School of Economics. «Πιθανώς ο Βαρουφάκης να αποφάσισε να αποσυρθεί μετά από μία σειρά γκάφες σε επίπεδο...
Proč státy selhávají [Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson / Argo, Dokořán] (translate)
KOSMAS.cz | Nové knihy - 24 Mar 2015 13:16
Narodil se v Turecku, studoval na univerzitě v americké Yorku a na London School of Economics. V současnosti vyučuje ekonomii na prestižní MIT. Je autorem několika knih na ekonomická témata, mimo jiné další práce sepsané společně s Jamesem Robinsonem...
Handelsblatt: Γιατί εξαφανίστηκε ο Γ. Βαρουφάκης; (translate)
Proto Thema Online - 24 Mar 2015 12:54
τόσο στο εσωτερικό όσο και στο εξωτερικό», σχολιάζει ο Σπύρος Οικονομίδης του London School of Economics. «Πιθανώς ο Βαρουφάκης να αποφάσισε να αποσυρθεί μετά από μία σειρά γκάφες σε επίπεδο...