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A multi-million-pound research programme to help boost UK productivity is to be led by Professor John Van Reenen, associate and former director of the Centre for Economic Performance. The Programme on Innov... Read more...
21 August 2020
Of all economic indicators, a high employment rate is most likely to correlate with greater happiness, according to researchers. The London School of Economics consulted 29 academics, of whom 24 agreed that em... Read more...
12 May 2018
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An economist claimed Messi would be in prison now in the United States Economist Luis Garicano was recently elected by the Ciudadanos to take over one of the vice presidencies of the Party of the Alliance o... Read more...
20 December 2016
There is much in the Ciudadanos programme, drawn up by Luis Garicano, a London School of Economics professor, to appeal to investors. This article was published in The Times on December 17, 2015 Link to article http:/... Read more...
17 December 2015
Liberal Ciudadanos defends the idea of a single contract to end a two-tier labour market, with ''a core of the temporary workers, much less protected and highly protected workers even as the United States'', said economi... Read more...
22 October 2015
David Attenborough, Brian Cox, Paul Polman, Jeffrey Sachs and Arunabha Ghosh all sign letter calling for action by UN climate conference in December The international group of experts and CEOs back a new 'Global Apollo ... Read more...
16 September 2015
Article by Bill Gates Last month, during a trip to Europe, I mentioned that I plan to invest $1 billion in clean energy technology over the next five years. This will be a fairly big increase over the investments I am a... Read more...
03 August 2015
Article by Richard Layard Leading thinkers across the worlds of science, public service and academia have launched a new global programme to combat climate change. Richard Layard outlines their proposal for big public i... Read more...
India will be a member of a consortium of countries that will implement the Global Apollo Programme - a plan to find ways within the next 10 years of making green energy clean cheaper to produce than energy drawn from c... Read more...
03 June 2015
In the deepest chill of the Cold War, then-president of the United States John F. Kennedy announced to the country, and the world, that ''we choose to go to the moon.'' The Apollo Programme placed a man on the moon withi... Read more...
''The challenge is as big as putting a man on the moon,'' says Richard Layard of the London School of Economics, one of the founders of the programme along with other prominent scientists, economists and industrialists. ... Read more...
Lord Richard Layard, an economist at the London School of Economics and member of the Apollo group, said it was barely believable that the world only spent 2% of its R&D money on its ''most pressing problem'' of clim... Read more...
02 June 2015
Interview with Lord Layard regarding launch of the 'Apollo' programme to make renewables cheaper than fossil fuels. The interview was broadcast by the BBC World Service News on June 2, 2015 [No link available.] Relate... Read more...
Article by Richard Layard The target for GAP is to reduce the cost of clean energy and to do it fast. This article was published by The Huffington Post on June 2, 2015 Link to article here Related links 'Global ... Read more...
Leading academics, including former government chief scientist Sir David King, past president of the Royal Society Lord Rees, and economists Lord Stern and Lord Layard, in effect said that the world cannot be saved from ... Read more...