Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Britain: a country divided?
John Hills, professor of social policy at LSE, and Dr Polly Vizard gave another lecture in the LSE Works series on Thursday, […]
Human security and EU foreign policy: concepts, impacts, implications
The LSE Works series, sponsored by SAGE, held another lecture on Thursday, March 3, 2011. Presenting the latest findings of LSE’s Research […]
Best Ideas: can fund managers beat the market?
LSE Works is a lecture series sponsored by SAGE. In this session, Christopher Polk gave a discussion on the efficiency of the stock […]
Where is future growth going to come from?
On February 17, 2011, Professor John Van Reenen gave a lecture on the future of economic growth in Britain, continuing the LSE […]
Playing the numbers game in policy
The statistical illiteracy of the population – including policy-makers – was the subject of a discussion at the British Library on 13 […]
In defense of psychoanalysis
There’s no denying that Freud’s theories are deeply embedded in the fabric of modern life. However, as Robert Rowland Smith explores in […]
Flourish or fail? Higher education in crisis – the global context
The Higher Education Policy Institute’s Eighth Annual Lecture was given by Dr Jamil Salmi, the World Bank’s Director of Tertiary Education, at […]
In front of one’s nose
With the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States, many prominent public figures declared that America had “entered a ‘post-racial’ era.” But as sociologists Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and David Dietrich argue, “racial oppression is still systematic in America.”
