Tag: recession

Property Crime, Violence and Recession

By Richard Garside | Published: April 29, 2013

There is no inevitability in the rise in homicide, domestic and acquaintance violence in the coming year. Sadly, though, it would be more surprising if they did not increase than if they did.

Robert Shiller on Behavioral Economics

By Social Science Bites | Published: August 1, 2012

In the past twenty years there has been a revolution in economics with the study not of how people would behave if they were perfectly rational, but of how they actually behave. At the vanguard of this movement is Robert Shiller of Yale University. He sits down with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast

21st Century Challenges: Persistent Poverty in Britain

By SAGE | Published: February 26, 2011

The Royal Geographical Society is proud to announce that they will be hosting an event at part of the not-for-profit discussion series, “21st Century Challenges“, which aims to inform and inspire public audiences, helping them to engage with important issues that face society in the coming decades. The theme for this event is “Persistent poverty in [...]

Posted in Impact | Also tagged Poverty, poverty alleviation | Leave a comment

How did London get away with it? The recession and the north-south divide

By SAGE | Published: January 28, 2011

Henry G Overman, professor of economic geography at LSE and director of the Spatial Economics Research Centre Last week was the first in a new series of SAGE-sponsored events at the LSE. LSE Works is a series of public lectures that will showcase some of the latest research by LSE’s Research Centres. In each session, [...]

Posted in Audio, Presentations, Videos | Also tagged Cities, economics, geography, LSE, LSE Works, Trends | Leave a comment

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