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7 unusual facts about London school of economics


Albert Blaustein

From 1959 until 1968 Blaustein worked in the London School of Economics, the Constitution Associates foreign advisory board and the US Department of Education and the US Commission on Civil Rights from 1962 - 1963.

George Barnsby

Following military service in India and Burma he studied at the London School of Economics where he obtained an economics degree enabling him to become a teacher.

International Hall, London

It is an intercollegiate hall, and as such provides accommodation for full-time students at institutions such as University College London, King's College London, Queen Mary, School of Oriental and African Studies, the London School of Economics, and other such constituent colleges of the University of London.

Rafael Peñas Cruz

After completing an MA in Hispanic studies at Birbeck University of London, he worked at schools and colleges teaching Spanish and Hispanic culture, and started work at the London School of Economics in 2000 in the Language Centre.

Roger C. Poole

Dr. Poole also did a post-doctoral study in international finance at the London School of Economics.

TBC Bank

Mr. Japaridze graduated from the faculty of psychology of Tbilisi State University in 1982 (where he also acted as a lecturer between 1985 and 1995) and completed his executive course at London School of Economics and Political Sciences.

Zeke Kinski

He tells her that he has applied and won the chance to do a semester at the London School of Economics.


1215: The Year of Magna Carta

1215: The Year of Magna Carta is a historical documentation of life in Medieval England written by author and journalist, Danny Danziger and emeritus professor of history at the London School of Economics, John Gillingham.

Abhinay Muthoo

He studied for a BSc in Economics at the London School of Economics before proceeding to obtain his MPhil and PhD in Economics at the University of Cambridge, where he was supervised by Kenneth Binmore and Frank Hahn.

Actuarial credentialing and exams

At the undergraduate level the only locally accredited programmes are currently at University of Manchester, University College Dublin, Queen's University Belfast, Heriot-Watt University, University of Edinburgh, the London School of Economics, University of Southampton, City University, London and the University of Kent.

Aitzaz Ahsan

He has also co-authored the book Divided by Democracy with Lord Meghnad Desai of the London School of Economics.

Andrew Samuels

He then gained a Diploma in Social Administration at the London School of Economics, subsequently qualified as a Psychiatric Social Worker and went on to train at the Society of Analytical Psychology (founded in 1946 in London to develop the ideas of Carl Jung, and a member institution of the BPC), where he is a Training Analyst.

Anti-Federalist League

The main founder of the Anti-Federalist League was Alan Sked, lecturer at the London School of Economics, leading figure in the Bruges Group and former official of the Liberal Party.

Archie Brown

Brown was born in Annan, Scotland, and educated at Annan Academy and Dumfries Academy, before studying at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at the London School of Economics (LSE).

Avro Manhattan

Born in Milan, Italy on April 6, 1914 to American and Swiss/Dutch parents of Jewish extraction, Manhattan was educated at the Sorbonne and the London School of Economics.

Connaught Hall, London

It is an intercollegiate hall, and as such provides accommodation for full-time students at constituent colleges and institutions of the University of London, including King's College London, University College London, Queen Mary, the London School of Economics and the School of Oriental and African Studies and others.

Daphne Phelps

Phelps attended St Felix School, Southwold, Suffolk, and subsequently trained in psychiatric social work at St Anne's College, Oxford, and at the London School of Economics.

David Laibson

He received an A.B. (summa) from Harvard in 1988, studying under Benjamin M. Friedman, and went on to study at the London School of Economics (MSc. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics) where he was a recipient of a Marshall Scholarship.

Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium

Willem Buiter of the London School of Economics has argued that DSGE models rely excessively on an assumption of complete markets, and are unable to describe the highly nonlinear dynamics of economic fluctuations, making training in 'state-of-the-art' macroeconomic modeling "a privately and socially costly waste of time and resources".

Fiona Mactaggart

In May 2011 McTaggart was criticised by the Association of Political Thought for calling some of the views of London School of Economics professor of political and gender theory Anne Phillips "frankly nauseating" because of her supposed support for prostitution.

Grigori Marchenko

Marchenko gave a speech on "The development of Kazakhstan in the period of Globalization and the growth of financial markets" on 15 March 2006 at the Hong Kong Theater,Clement House, Aldwych, for the London School of Economics.

H. C. Coombs

As a student in Perth he was a socialist, but while studying at the London School of Economics he became converted to the economic views of John Maynard Keynes, and he spent the rest of his career pursuing Keynesian solutions to Australia's economic problems.

Ian Ballantine

Born in New York City, the son of Stella Commins Ballantine (niece of anarchist Emma Goldman), Ian Ballantine received his undergraduate degree from Columbia College and his graduate degree from the London School of Economics.

John Crosbie

He undertook postgraduate studies at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London and the London School of Economics in 1956-57 and was called to the Newfoundland Bar in 1957.

Legatum Prosperity Index

The Prosperity Index is reviewed and critiqued by an advisory panel of academics and scholars representing a range of disciplines and includes: Prof Tim Besley(London School of Economics); Dr. Daniel Drezner (Tufts University); Dr. Carol Graham (Brookings Institution); Dr. Edmund Malesky (University of California, San Diego); Dr. Ann Owen (Hamilton College).

Liah Greenfeld

In 2002, she received the Kagan Prize of the Historical Society for the best book in European History (for The Spirit of Capitalism) and in 2004 was chosen to deliver the Gellner lecture at the London School of Economics.

Machon Yaakov

Machon Yaakov students represent such universities as Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Cornell University, University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Rutgers University, University of Maryland, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, UCLA, and many others.

Martin Potůček

Than he studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science (receiving a M.Sc. in European Social Policy, 1991) and took part in numerous professional fellowship and exchange programs, including Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships in the U.S. (1992), at the Oxford University (1993–1994), at the University of Konstanz (1997–2000), at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna (1998) and at the CEU in Budapest (1998–2000).

Matthew Halton

He subsequently went to London, England to study at King's College London and at the London School of Economics, writing extensively on European affairs for Canadian newspapers.

Michał Rutkowski

A graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics (MSc 1982, PhD 1987), with post-graduate studies at the London School of Economics (1989-90) and Harvard Business School (1999).

Miguel Poiares Maduro

He has worked as a lecturer at numerous institutions, including: College of Europe, Catholic University of Lisbon, the New University of Lisbon, School of Economics London, School of Chicago Law School, Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies in Spain, Instituto Ortega y Gasset in Madrid and Institute of European Studies of Macau.

MMICC

Since its foundation, the competition has welcomed such schools as the London School of Economics, the Wharton School, the University of Southern California, the Copenhagen Business School, and schools from Hong Kong and Singapore.

Monisha Kaltenborn

From 1990 to 1995 she studied for a Law degree at the University of Vienna, and then completed a masters' degree in International Business Law at the London School of Economics in 1996.

Oliver Everett

Everett was educated at St Aubyn's Preparatory School Woodford Green Essex having been Captain of the 1st XVFelsted, the Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio and at Christ's CollegeCambridge, and he has a masters degree in international relations from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and did post-graduate work in international relations at the London School of Economics.

Patrick Harverson

Patrick Harverson was born in 1962, and educated at Belmont Abbey, Hereford, Brockenhurst College, Hampshire, and the London School of Economics.

Philip Klapwijk

After studies at the London School of Economics and the College of Europe in Bruges where he obtained degrees in economics he started work as an analyst with Gold Fields Mineral Services (now GFMS), a precious metals and base metals forecasting & consultancy company specialising in global gold, silver, platinum and palladium market research, reports, annual reviews and analysis.

Ronald P. Dore

He is an associate of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and is a fellow of the British Academy, the Japan Academy, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Rupert Taylor

He was educated at the progressive independent Dartington Hall School in Devon and completed a BA degree in Politics and Government at the University of Kent in 1980, followed by an MSc at the London School of Economics in 1981 and a PhD in Sociology at Kent, completed in 1986.

Sandy D'Alemberte

After military service as a lieutenant in the United States Navy Reserve, D'Alemberte studied on a Rotary Foundation fellowship at the London School of Economics.

Stanisław Gomułka

Stanisław Gomułka (b. 10 September 1940, Krężoły, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) is a Polish economist, former advisor to the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Poland, and a reader in Economics at the London School of Economics up to 2005.

Temasek Junior College

TJC students have been admitted to universities including MIT, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, Duke, LSE, University of Toronto, McGill, UCLA, Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford, Peking University and Amherst.

The Open Society and Its Enemies

Among them were Ernst Gombrich (entrusted with the main task of finding a publisher), Friedrich Hayek (who wanted to get Popper to the London School of Economics and thus was enthused by Popper's turn to social philosophy), Lionel Robbins, Harold Laski (both of whom reviewed the manuscript), and J.N. Findlay.

The Review of Economic Studies

The current editors-in-chief are Stéphane Bonhomme (CEMFI), Francesco Caselli (London School of Economics), Philipp Kircher (University of Edinburgh), Marco Ottaviani (Northwestern University), Imran Rasul (University College London), and Dimitri Vayanos (London School of Economics).

Tibor Scitovsky

He was educated at the Pázmány Péter University (from which he held an undergraduate degree in law), University of Cambridge, and the London School of Economics.

Tim Atkin

Atkin holds a BA from Durham University in Modern Languages and a Masters degree from the London School of Economics in European Studies.

VuFind

As of March 2012, a total of 64 institutions are running live instances of Vufind including the Georgia Tech Library, the London School of Economics, the National Library of Ireland, Yale University, and the DC Public Library.

Wang Guangya

Wang studied at Student Center of British Council, The United World College of the Atlantic and London School of Economics in the United Kingdom.


see also

Bhikhu Parekh

He taught at the London School of Economics and at the University of Glasgow before finding a long-term position at the University of Hull.

CESNUR

Eileen Barker, professor in sociology at the London School of Economics

Donald Watt

Donald Cameron Watt, professor at London School of Economics, winner of the Wolfson History Prize

Gregory Currie

Currie is an editor of Mind and Language, an Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, a Past Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and has held visiting positions at Clare Hall, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, the Institute for Advanced Study, Australian National University, the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of St Andrews.

José-Carlos Mariátegui

He is currently disciple of Prof. Jannis Kallinikos while doing a PhD on the socio-economic consequences of information growth at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Kaldor

Mary Kaldor (born 1946), British academic, currently Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics

Nir Rosen

In March 2011, Mary Kaldor, Co-Director at the Center for Global Governance at the London School of Economics had hired Rosen as a research fellow to work on North Africa.

Penang Free School

Danny Quah, economist and Head of Department of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Peter J. N. Sinclair

A former visiting professor at the University of British Columbia and Queen's University in Canada, he has also lectured in China, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lesotho, Poland, Russia and the U.S. He is currently a visiting professor at The London School of Economics and University of Warwick, and chairman of the Royal Economic Society Easter School, and the International Economics Study Group.

Rodney Barker

After gaining his BA in History from Downing College, Cambridge, he undertook a PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science, jointly supervised by Richard Titmuss in the Department of Social Administration, and Robert McKenzie in the Department of Sociology.

Sanjaya Lall

The inaugural event was a panel discussion involving Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf, and the first holder of the new Chair, Professor Robert Wade of the London School of Economics.

University of Economics, Prague

In 2010/2011, VŠE cooperated with 159 partner universities (including Sciences Po Paris, Universität zu Köln, Tilburg University, Stockholm School of Economics, University of St. Gallen, London School of Economics and Political Science, Tel Aviv University, University of Queensland, McGill University, Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

William Plowden

William Julius Lowthian Plowden (1935–2010), academic at the London School of Economics, first Director-General of the Royal Institute of Public Administration