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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

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.

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.

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.

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.'.

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

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,

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

2 Dec 2008: This heated debate is fundamentally about numbers. How much energy could each source deliver, at what economic and social cost, and with what risks?