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Political forecasting is a thankless task, especially so in today's Britain. Even still, it's worth looking at what may improve a particular party's chances in the 12 December election. One factor ... Read more...
05 November 2019
It is harder to quantify the emotional impact of losing a plant where generations of the same families had worked for a century. From the beach, the idle works hulk over the skyline. Research by Sascha Becker, Thiemo Fet... Read more...
06 June 2019
Recent research by London School of Economics academic George Ward shows that how people feel about their lives influences how they vote in elections. He believes that subjective measures of well-being are bet... Read more...
20 October 2017
Article by Philippe Aghion and Benedicte Berner The French government has just announced the guidelines for a new labor code, its first major reform to boost France’s economy, by giving more flexibili... Read more...
01 September 2017
…A paper in the latest American Economic Review (AER) provides an intriguing perspective on the issue. Tim Besley of the LSE and two Swedish colleagues carried out a very detailed empirical analysis ... Read more...
16 August 2017
According to Richard Layard, one of the study's leaders, "evidence shows that the things that matter most to happiness and misery are social relationships and mental and physical health." In his ... Read more...
10 July 2017
By Philippe Aghion and Benedicte Berner Emmanuel Macron’s one-man revolution in French and European politics continued this weekend, as he will soon be able to add a huge parliamentary majority ... Read more...
15 June 2017
Article by Philippe Aghion and Benedicte Berner Emmanuel Macron’s one-man revolution in French and European politics continued this weekend, as he will soon be able to add a huge parliamentary majorit... Read more...
13 June 2017
Nobel Prize winning economist Christopher Pissarides of the London School of Economics said Greece still ... This article was published online by The National Herald on September 10, 2015 Link to article here [subsc... Read more...
10 September 2015