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We welcomed Jeffrey Winters to launch ‘The Blind Spot: How #Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies’.
The event discussed how modern #democracy was designed to protect the interests of the ultra-rich.
Watch Jeffrey speak about this on @thenewsagents.co.uk from 23.30 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS6I...
Join us at LSE for our upcoming lecture with Dr Adriana Kugler, former Governor of the Federal Reserve Board.
📅 Monday 1 June
⏲️ 5.30-6.45pm
📍 Wolfson Theatre, LSE
Find more details, including how to attend here:
👉 bit.ly/3POYeVk
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The Times x High Fliers Research is looking for a well-connected student to coordinate market research and project management tasks; contributing to the 'The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers' guide.
Find out more details and apply here 👇
finalyearstudentsurvey.co.uk/vacancies/
We hosted our annual Brian Barry Memorial Lecture with Professor Chiara Cordelli speaking on 'Capitalism, Alienation, and the Rule of None'.
The lecture analysed the alienation we face from investment processes that decide our futures.
▶️ Watch the full lecture here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KILZ...
We've been ranked second for politics in the UK Complete University Guide 2027! 🎉🎓
Maybe we're biased, but if you want to #studypolitics, learn from world leading experts, with a front row seat to UK politics and everything that a truly global city like #London has to offer, LSE is hard to beat 👍
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Over 20 000 downloads !!! @lsepress.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social
Working on proposal for part 2 companion volume tentatively entitled Order, Justice and the Common Good. Watch this space.
New paper w/ @lstoetze.bsky.social "Estimating Treatment Effects on Proportions with Synthetic Controls" out in @polanalysis.bsky.social 👀
When your outcomes are compositional (such as vote shares), applying synthetic controls separately to each part can break the math. We show how to fix it: 🧵
NEW: Conservatism, culture wars and the West
The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition – Volume I: The Ancient World and Christendom, and Volume II: The Modern and Contemporary West, by Allen C. Guelzo and James Hankins.
Review by @pjthinker.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social 👇
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Is the problem with capitalism not exploitation but rather the alienation caused by capital markets? Watch Chiara Cordelli's Brian Barry Memorial Lecture for her theory of the wrongs of capitalism. @lsegovernment.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=KILZ...
The Golden Thread by Allen C. Guelzo and James Hankins is an ambitious, politically-driven, two-volume history of the Western Tradition, reviewed by Paul Kelly.
How do countries write their AI strategies?
@eliseantoine.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social & Adam Chalmers @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social map global models of governance and show that different priorities for what AI should deliver combine in more varied ways than expected @lsebr.bsky.social
