Sheffield Telegraph
Sheffield 'avant garde model of city reform'
Sheffield has emerged as an ‘avant garde model of city reform’ in an LSE study of how seven European cities fought back from industrial decay and unemployment.
http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/Sheffield-39avant-garde-model-of.4089927.jp

Detroit News
US should be ashamed for exporting anti-labor tactics
‘In no other developed country do employers routinely fight to the death efforts by their employees to form a union.’ That's the finding about the United States of John Logan, a professor at the London School of Economics and an expert on union organizing issues.
http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080516/OPINION03/805160310

Bloomberg
London's `Little Cairo' loses as shisha smokers go underground
Today, about two-thirds of the restaurants and shops in the area target Middle Eastern tastes, and the only pub, the Old English Gentleman, sells shisha pipes. ‘This is a wonderful part of multicultural Britain where you have lots of people who come and smoke shisha in these cafes,' said John Chalcraft, a lecturer in Middle Eastern history at the London School of Economics. ‘You discuss politics, you watch football, you play backgammon, you relax, you meet friends.'
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aqv3ehRYk1mE&refer=uk

Daily Telegraph
Bank of England 'must abandon inflation target or crucify consumer'
Former MPC policymaker Willem Buiter [chair of European political economy at LSE] said focusing on core inflation in the UK "would be absolutely idiotic, stupid and counterproductive. Core inflation is only good for people who don't eat, don't drink, use cars or heat or air condition their houses.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/05/16/cnbank116.xml

Independent
Shell's support for carbon capture plant raises hopes for emissions cuts
Lord Stern [IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at LSE], the author of the influential Stern Review into the economics of climate change, puts carbon capture and storage (CCS) at the centre of his call for zero-carbon electricity globally by 2050. ‘We need to get better at carbon capture and sequestration very quickly,’ he said.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/shells-support-for-carbon-capture
plant-raiseshopes-for-emissions-cuts-829326.html

Phayul.com
Dangerous Dialogues
Article by Tsering Topgyal, a Tibetan writing a PhD dissertation on the Sino-Tibetan conflict at the London School of Economics.
http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?article=Dangerous+Dialogues&id=21247&t=1&c=4

New Statesman
For art's sake
Mention the student occupations of the late 1960s, and most people will think of Paris or the London School of Economics, but probably not Hornsey in north London.
http://www.newstatesman.com/200805150046

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Health Service Journal
First regional Darzi visions offer glimpse into future
Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT chief executive Trevor Purt warned that local mediation - also proposed in the review - might not work where local authority overview and scrutiny committees were not satisfied with proposals. And London School of Economics professor of social policy Julian Le Grand said: ‘What happens if [the new service] doesn't demonstrate what experimenters would like it to demonstrate? Are we then stuck with two services that aren't working very well?’
http://www.hsj.co.uk/news/2008/05/first_regional_darzi_visions_offer_glimpse_into_future.html

Daily Telegraph
'Rat catcher' caught out by question of royalty - Red-faced pink 'un
Willem Buiter has long been one of this column's heroes and the professor is on rare form again in his blog. Moaning that the reporting of the rise in inflation to 3pc ‘has been abominable, even in papers that still credit their readers with IQs in double digits’, he singles out one rag for criticism. ‘The FT,’ he says, ‘contained a deeply misleading article’ with ‘major-league disinformation’. We are loth to disagree with such a wise man, though the publishers of his blog might. Step forward The Financial Times.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/05/15/ccdiary115.xml

Director of Finance Online (14 May)
Sheffield and Belfast comeback hailed
Two UK cities are completing a full recovery after the collapse of the manufacturing industry.
A new analysis from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) of seven major European cities - including Sheffield and Belfast - found they are successfully rebuilding their environment, economy and society from a low point of industrial decay and unemployment.
http://www.dofonline.co.uk/economy/sheffield-and-belfast-comeback-hailed.html

The Financial
‘Phoenix’ cities show how to rise again from industrial ruin
Cities which stood on the brink of ruin just 20 years ago after the collapse of manufacturing industry are completing a dazzling comeback, shows a new analysis from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
http://finchannel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12595&Itemid=9

The Star
Reborn Sheffield among Europe's 'dazzling' seven
Sheffield has been hailed as one of seven major European cities that are completing a ‘dazzling comeback’ after being on ‘the brink of ruin just 20 years ago’. The accolade comes from the London School of Economics, whose Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion has just carried out a two-year study of the way the cities are rebuilding their environment, economy and society from a low point of industrial decay and unemployment.
http://www.thestar.co.uk/business/Reborn-Sheffield-among-Europes-dazzling.4086407.jp

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