Guardian
Cost of tackling global climate change has doubled, warns Stern
[Lord Stern of Brentford, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at LSE]. The author of an influential British government report arguing the world needed to spend just 1 per cent of its wealth tackling climate change has warned that the cost of averting disaster has now doubled.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/26/climatechange.scienceofclimatechange
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• La Tribune
Nicholas Stern crée une agence de notation de crédits de CO2
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Prospect
Interview: Nicholas Stern
Stern’s report was attacked for being alarmist when it came out in 2006. But now he is going for a new global environment deal in Copenhagen next year. What are its chances?
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10256

FT Adviser
Sales pitch is key to PPI - British Insurance
The Competition Commission has recommended much more stringent requirements on companies to make available information like rates of declined payouts. But Simon Burgess, an independent provider for British Insurance, has argued research from the London School of Economics shows this does not affect consumer behaviour is buying payment protection insurance, while the salesman's tactics did.
http://ftadviser.com/FinancialAdviser/Insurance/News/article/20080626/cca7a60e
-3e05-11dd-84f9-0015171400aa/Sales-pitch-is-key-to-PPI--British-Insurance.jsp

THE
Figure it out
Article discusses topics from the debate Why Economics Matters, which was held at the London School of Economics in May to mark the launch of the new Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=
402499&c=1

Where has all the passion gone
Not to be outdone, the LSE also forged a reputation for radicalism that - an intelligence report from 1968 released by the Public Record Office reveals - spread beyond these shores. German students, who were not exactly wallflowers, viewed the LSE as 'frighteningly radical', the spooks observed.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode
=402523&c=1

Grant winners
Forty-nine 2008 Postdoctoral Fellowships have been awarded by the British Academy across the humanities and social sciences. Award winner: Ralf Martin, London School of Economics, £276,497 - How to induce innovation to address climate change?
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=402559

AFP
Obiturary - Oldest Nobel laureate, Leonid Hurwicz, dies age 90
It was in Poland that Hurwicz obtained a law degree, graduating from the University of Warsaw in 1938, before heading to the London School of Economics where he was taught by renowned Hungarian economist Nicholas Kaldor.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hO6sWsBHN4zWIPJ0OAeEsAKkrGPA

Scripps Howard Foundation Wire
3 years on, YouTube is the object of serious study
‘The day after Barack Obama officially clinched the nomination, I took my camera and went around the streets of London to gage the temperature of Brits,’ said Eric J. Kuhn, 21, a rising senior at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, in an e-mail interview. Kuhn just finished his junior year at the London School of Economics. "Within days, thousands had viewed the video.’
http://www.shfwire.com/story/3-years-on-youtube-is-the-object-of-serious-study (subscription)

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Newsroom Finland
WHO report faults Finnish drug policies
Article about an LSE review by Professor Elias Mossialos and Divya Srivastava, LSE Health.
http://newsroom.finland.fi/stt/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=19086&group=General
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• Aamulehti, Finland
Ministeriön tilaama kansainvälinen raportti murjoo koko Suomen terveydenhoitopolitiikkaa
http://www.aamulehti.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/92475.shtml

Pharma Times
Urgent action needed in Europe to improve CRC screening
A major report has been published which calls on governments in Europe and Australia to do much more to improve the survival of patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer. The London School of Economics has launched the report to coincide with the World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer in Barcelona and it states that there is an ‘urgent need’ for action to improve the survival of CRC patients.
http://www.pharmatimes.com/WorldNews/article.aspx?id=13774

Irish Post
Pensioners missing out on claiming benefits
Thousands of Irish pensioners across Britain are not claiming Government benefits which they are entitled to according to Help the Aged. A recent investigation by the charity run in conjunction with British Gas and the London School of Economics revealed that a staggering £4.5billion goes unclaimed by pensioners in Britain annually.
http://www.irishpost.co.uk/news/story/?trs=qlqlkfkf&cat=news

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