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6 Mar 2008: His talk will cover certain aspects of Shackle’s interest in the role of decision-making in economics, examining in particular Shackle’s challenges to rational choice theory. ... Rational choice theory is the dominant model of decision making in many

1 May 2008: Since the country began to integrate with the world’s economic and business systems, a consistently stated goal of China’s industrial policy has been to construct internationally competitive companies. ... which are state owned and still central to

11 Mar 2008: former pupil of Notre Dame Sixth Form College in Leeds who is now studying economics at Cambridge.

24 Apr 2008: At Shimla the agenda will include the current world economic situation, healthcare, education & research, culture, ageing populations and international development.

20 Aug 2008: That cause can often be economic, but there are clear signs that many of these movements encourage people to take pride in their country and the part they play in Japanese ... Japanese people are also being encouraged to rise early to increase their

12 Nov 2008: Taking these questions, the seminar will investigate how the problem can be tackled from many angles: biological sciences, economics, clinical medicine, implementation and ethics – all with a dose of pragmatism in

1 Sep 2008: Funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) through the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the study forms part of a wider £30 million Teaching and Learning Research

1 May 2008: Cities have expanded over time to meet the economic growth and lifestyle aspirations of those who live in them. ... Each institution contributes expertise in different areas to the multidisciplinary project, from energy generation and supply, through

11 Dec 2008: "Culture Wars: Heritage and Armed Conflict in the 21st Century", which is being hosted by Cambridge University, will suggest that the very idea of culture is

4 Sep 2008: Vickrey's first degree was in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from Yale, and he shared the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1996. ... In his ideal world, engineering economics would occupy a position of prominence and efficient pricing would be a

1 May 2008: Funding was provided under the umbrella of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC), a partnership of funders led by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and including the MRC, which

10 Dec 2008: Its role was to promote modern South Asian studies in Cambridge in an interdisciplinary way, and the Centre brought with it lectureships in History, Geography, Economics and Social Anthropology.

22 Jul 2008: IMF lending programmes demand that countries meet strict economic targets as a condition of the loans. ... The International Monetary Fund has argued that their goal is to boost economic growth and that ‘wealthier is healthier’,” added King.

1 May 2008: Dr Emma Gilby from the Department of French and Dr Rodrigo Cacho from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese were honoured recently by The Leverhulme Trust

2 May 2008: Lord Stern said, “This publication marks the beginning of a work programme on the economics of climate change for LSE’s Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and ESRC ... Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy.

28 Jan 2008: At the summit', Professor Reynolds says, ‘those vast forces that shape history – military, economic, cultural – are focused in two men eyeball-to-eyeball across the negotiating table.'.

4 Jul 2008: Such is the mortality rate from these chronic diseases that they could slow down economic growth by killing off large numbers of people of working age. ... To test this theory, Stuckler measured the chronic disease mortality rates of 56 countries against

29 Feb 2008: Key findings include the following:. The UK comes 18th out of 29 countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in expenditure on primary education and the difference ... They are:. The Funding of English Primary Education,

19 Jan 2008: First in Economics from St John's College in 1957.

1 May 2008: To understand ramen’s cultural and economic influence in the international scene, Dr Barak Kushner, from the Department of East Asian Studies, is charting the history and shifts in food culture ... Students as well as labourers flocked to the new