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The rivalry between academic opinion at LSE and Cambridge goes back to the school's roots when LSE's Edwin Cannan (1861–1935), Professor of Economics, and Cambridge's Professor of Political Economy, Alfred Marshall (1842–1924), the leading economist of the day, argued about the bedrock matter of economics and whether the subject should be ...
This list of people associated with the London School of Economics includes notable alumni, non-graduates, academics and administrators affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science. This includes 55 past or present heads of state, as well as 19 Nobel laureates.
Beatrice Webb was a co-founder of the Fabian Society and of the LSE.. The history of the London School of Economics dates from 1895, when the School was founded by Fabian Society members Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Graham Wallas, and George Bernard Shaw, with funding provided by private philanthropy, including a bequest of £20,000 from Henry Hunt Hutchinson to the Fabian Society.
The Centre for Economic Performance is led by director Stephen Machin alongside research director Henry Overman. [17] Its work is supervised by a policy committee, which comprises 11 members drawn from business, academia and government and is chaired by Nicholas Macpherson (former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury). [18]
Moore obtained a B.A. in Mathematics at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge in 1976, [1] an M.Sc. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1980, and a Ph.D. in Economics at the LSE in 1984. At the LSE he was appointed Lecturer in Economics in 1983, Reader in Economics in 1987, and Professor of Economic ...
In labour economics, main areas of Machin's research include minimum wages, trends in wage inequality and social mobility, and skill-biased technological change.. In the mid- and late 1990s, following David Card and Alan B. Krueger's re-evaluation of the employment effects of the minimum wage, Stephen Machin (with Alan Manning) conducted research in the U.K. on the subject.
Pages in category "Alumni of the London School of Economics" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,367 total.
Ricardo A. M. R. Reis FBA (born 1 September 1978) is a Portuguese economist who is currently the A. W. Phillips Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.He works in macroeconomics, finance, and international economics and won the 2021 Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation medal awarded every two years by the European Economic Association for best economist under the age of 45.