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Does raising the National Living Wage make economic sense?
Construction worker, by skeeze, under a CC0 licence With ongoing governmental debate on the nature of Brexit, there is as yet no certainty on its precise impact. Still, there is wide speculation that...
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The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy – Book Review
The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy. Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz. MIT Press. 2016. Find this book: There can be little doubt that the way we consume a range of...
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Is the UK’s role in the European supply chain at risk?
Image by Francois Van, under a CC0 licence Over the past decades the UK economy has become a party to global production chains in a number of sectors. Benefiting from tremendous investment by many of...
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LSE Growth Commission: invest more in people, not only buildings and machines
The LSE Growth Commission sets out a new blueprint for inclusive and sustainable growth that deals with the challenges facing the UK, old and new. Based on the latest research, analysis and evidence...
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Anna Valero: ‘Automation has taken away mid-level skills jobs’
As a Research Director of LSE’s Growth Commission, Anna Valero spent part of the post-Brexit vote months studying the gaps between public policy and the new economic reality in the UK. In an...
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The value of investing in historic buildings
In many countries, vast amounts of public money are invested to preserve historic buildings. In the Netherlands, for example, total public expenditures on renovation subsidies have been more than a...
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Net Neutrality in a hyperlinked Internet economy
Have you ever realized that the websites and social platforms you use are full of links that lead you to contents, videos or advertisements of other content providers? And that you usually surf from...
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Can social media sentiment affect stock market performance?
The boom of social media in the past decade has transformed the way investors forecast the stock market. As social media provides large volumes of real-time user opinion, investors can potentially...
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What explains the evolution of management models over the past two centuries?
Scientific Management, Human Relations, and Strategy-and-Structure are well-known management models in the history of business, but we still understand little about why a given model succeeds in...
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Strategic silence: Why are some companies not publicising their environmental...
IKEA uses a lot of lumber. You may have become acquainted with that lumber when you sweated over assembling a Billy bookcase correctly. Is IKEA callously felling old-growth forests to prop up our old...
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Getting the best out of your crowdsourcing contest
For a firm, big or small, the idea of outsourcing tasks, especially innovation tasks, that are either costly or risky is attractive. This is especially so when outsourcing is made easy by the...
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Can your organisation benefit from embracing the open source way?
A recent Forbes article indicates that corporate engagement with open source communities has grown to become a strategic imperative over the past couple of decades. An increasing number of companies...
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Welfare, Inequality and Social Citizenship – Book Review
Welfare, Inequality and Social Citizenship: Deprivation and Affluence in Austerity Britain. Daniel Edmiston. Policy Press. 2018. Find this book: Daniel Edmiston’s Welfare, Inequality and Social...
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Does raising the National Living Wage make economic sense?
Construction worker, by skeeze, under a CC0 licence With ongoing governmental debate on the nature of Brexit, there is as yet no certainty on its precise impact. Still, there is wide speculation that...
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LSE Growth Commission: invest more in people, not only buildings and machines
The LSE Growth Commission sets out a new blueprint for inclusive and sustainable growth that deals with the challenges facing the UK, old and new. Based on the latest research, analysis and evidence...
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Anna Valero: ‘Automation has taken away mid-level skills jobs’
As a Research Director of LSE’s Growth Commission, Anna Valero spent part of the post-Brexit vote months studying the gaps between public policy and the new economic reality in the UK. In an...
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The value of investing in historic buildings
In many countries, vast amounts of public money are invested to preserve historic buildings. In the Netherlands, for example, total public expenditures on renovation subsidies have been more than a...
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Can social media sentiment affect stock market performance?
The boom of social media in the past decade has transformed the way investors forecast the stock market. As social media provides large volumes of real-time user opinion, investors can potentially...
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What explains the evolution of management models over the past two centuries?
Scientific Management, Human Relations, and Strategy-and-Structure are well-known management models in the history of business, but we still understand little about why a given model succeeds in...
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Strategic silence: Why are some companies not publicising their environmental...
IKEA uses a lot of lumber. You may have become acquainted with that lumber when you sweated over assembling a Billy bookcase correctly. Is IKEA callously felling old-growth forests to prop up our old...
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