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- Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich: debunking trickle-down economics https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-for-the-world/economics/tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy-only-benefit-the-rich-debunking-trickle-down-economics 28 comments
- Octopuses, crabs and lobsters recognised as sentient beings under UK law (2021) https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2021/k-November-21/Octopuses-crabs-and-lobsters-welfare-protection 458 comments
- Review of the evidence of sentience in molluscs and crustaceans [pdf] https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/News-Assets/PDFs/2021/Sentience-in-Cephalopod-Molluscs-and-Decapod-Crustaceans-Final-Report-November-2021.pdf 40 comments
- Keeping tax low for the rich does not boost economy https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2020/L-December/Tax-cuts-for-the-rich 8 comments
- Football penalty shoot-outs are unfair (2010) http://www.lse.ac.uk/website-archive/newsAndMedia/newsArchives/2010/12/Penalties.aspx 8 comments
- Tax cuts for the rich lead to higher income inequality in both the short- & medium-term. Such reforms had no significant effect on economic growth or unemployment. Our results provide evidence against the political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy. https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-for-the-world/economics/tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy-only-benefit-the-rich-debunking-trickle-down-economics 57 comments science
- Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich | LSE Research https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-for-the-world/economics/tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy-only-benefit-the-rich-debunking-trickle-down-economics 255 comments economics
- On whether artificial agents' responses to difficult choices should align with our own moral intuitions https://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2021/06/08/how-should-artificial-agents-make-risky-choices-on-our-behalf/ 3 comments philosophy
- On whether beliefs can be morally wrong https://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2021/05/04/can-beliefs-be-morally-wrong/ 32 comments philosophy
- The devil’s in the framing: language and bias https://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2022/02/08/the-devils-in-the-framing/ 95 comments philosophy
- Christine Lagarde speaking at LSE. Flood her with Bitcoin questions https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2022/06/202206151700LSE/conversation 14 comments bitcoin
- The Naturalistic Case for Free Will, Part 3: Indeterminism as an Emergent Phenomenon https://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2019/11/21/the-naturalistic-case-for-free-will-part-3/ 66 comments philosophy
- The Naturalistic Case for Free Will, Part 2: An Indispensability Argument https://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2019/11/06/the-naturalistic-case-for-free-will-part-2/ 91 comments philosophy
- Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law following LSE report findings https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2021/k-November-21/Octopuses-crabs-and-lobsters-welfare-protection 50 comments upliftingnews
- Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law following LSE report findings https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2021/k-November-21/Octopuses-crabs-and-lobsters-welfare-protection 3389 comments upliftingnews
- Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law following LSE report findings https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2021/k-November-21/Octopuses-crabs-and-lobsters-welfare-protection 1421 comments worldnews
- What virology can tell us about philosophy https://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2020/08/25/a-virus-is-not-a-thing-3/ 3 comments philosophy
- It's not always our fault if we choose unhealthy foods. Study explains why we sometimes fail to be self-controlled when it comes to unhealthy food: our brain processes how healthy a food is slower than it processes how tasty it is https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2021/g-July-21/our-brains-choose-unhealthy-foods-faster 32 comments science
- A new study shows that keeping tax low for the rich does not boost economy https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2020/L-December/Tax-cuts-for-the-rich 32 comments science
- Keeping tax low for rich does not boost economy - LSE study https://www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-news-from-lse/2020/l-december/tax-cuts-for-the-rich 50 comments worldnews
- G. E. Moore's 'hands' argument against radical skepticism - and how it relates to possibly living in a simulation https://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2020/09/29/g-e-moores-hands-vs-radical-scepticism/ 184 comments philosophy
- PhD researcher request: Looking for interview participants/advice on recruiting interviewees -- mod approved http://www.lse.ac.uk/international-relations/phd-students/kemp-marissa 4 comments navy
- 2019 Lakatos Award for the Philosophy of Science awarded to Henk W. de Regt - 'Understanding Scientific Understanding' http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2019/06/14/henk-w-de-regt-wins-the-2019-lakatos-award/ 15 comments philosophy
- Learning from Data: the Art of Statistics http://www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?id=4663 14 comments statistics
- Most of us die virtually penniless, says new LSE research http://www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-news-from-lse/2019/02-feb-19/most-of-us-die-virtually-penniless-says-new-lse-research 92 comments worldnews
- Most of us die virtually penniless. Research analysed 60 million English death and probate records from 1892-2016. It is a situation that has not changed in relative terms since 1950, despite declining wealth inequality and the rise of the middle class http://www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-news-from-lse/2019/02-feb-19/most-of-us-die-virtually-penniless-says-new-lse-research 33 comments science
- LSE study suggests that greater exposure to media glamorizing materialism and wealth significantly increases people’s anti-welfare sentiment. http://www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-news-from-lse/2018/08-aug-2018/television-shows-that-glamourise-wealth 3 comments science
- Researchers have found that elevated levels of air pollution have a positive and significant impact on overall crime. Effects are present at levels that are well below current regulatory standards http://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/crime-is-in-the-air-the-contemporaneous-relationship-between-air-pollution-and-crime/ 6 comments science
- New LSE report recommends 'War on Drugs' is replaced by the Sustainable Development Goals.“The question now is not, whether to end the ‘war on drugs’, but what to replace its failed policies with,” http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsandmedia/news/archives/2016/02/new-lse-report-recommends-war-on-drugs-is-replaced-by-the-sustainable-development-goals.aspx? 132 comments worldnews
- Votes are still the main motivation for environmental policies in the US http://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/pork-barrel-as-a-signaling-tool-the-case-of-us-environmental-policy/ 12 comments science
- We are three EU foreign relations experts here to discuss the European Union's Foreign Policy. AUA http://www.lse.ac.uk/IDEAS/Projects/Dahrendorf%20Forum/Dahrendorf-Forum.aspx 121 comments geopolitics
- We are two experts on Chinese Foreign Policy working with the London School of Economics IDEAS. Ask Us Anything@ http://www.lse.ac.uk/IDEAS 53 comments geopolitics
- Power Politics and Princely Debts: Why Germany’s Common Currency Failed, 1549-1556 (PDF) http://www.lse.ac.uk/economichistory/workingpapers/2015/wp223.pdf 10 comments europe
- Russian Foreign Policy as an Exercise in NationBuilding http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=3264 6 comments russia
- Anti-smoking messages can backfire and make it harder for people to quit: New evidence shows that public health policies targeted at smokers may actually have the opposite effect for some people trying to quit http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsandmedia/news/archives/2015/10/anti-smoking-messages.aspx 1223 comments science
- Occupy activists at the London School of Economics have forced the school to make 'lectures accessible to the public including by access to timetables and improved provision for physical access consistent with security needs'. LSE Director agrees to advocate for education to be a 'public good'. http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsandmedia/aroundlse/archives/2015/occupation_agreement.aspx 25 comments worldnews
- Aggregate and per capita GDP in Europe, 1870-2000: continental, regional and national data with changing boundaries (pdf) http://www.lse.ac.uk/economichistory/pdf/broadberry/eurogdp2.pdf 22 comments europe
- Nobel Prize economists call for new approach to failed drug war in new LSE report. http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsandmedia/news/archives/2014/05/endwarondrugsreport.aspx 4 comments europe
- London School of Economics study says that the penalty shot is unfair; first shooting team wins 60% of the time in futbol (x-post /r/BehavioralEconomics) http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsandmedia/news/archives/2010/12/penalties.aspx 3 comments hockey
- London School of Economics proved in 2010 that penalty shoot-outs are unfair (X-post from r/BehavioralEconomics) http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsandmedia/news/archives/2010/12/penalties.aspx 98 comments soccer