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The #FabianSociety was founded on #ThisDayInHistory in 1884. Originally a #DemocraticSocialist group, it has shifted to #SocialDemocracy and remains affiliated with the centrist #LabourParty. One of its more important achievements was forming the #LondonSchoolOfEconomics in 1895.
#KarlPopper #Karl_Popper "The #Open #Society & it's #Enemies"
I don't sleep well, lol (fck #Pembroke #Health),. In the early hours I listen to old school #BBC #WorldService . How wonderful to hear some intelligent voices discussing one of the greatest #philosophers of the modern era. Fortunate man studied in the same #School and same #Department 1970's #LondonSchoolofEconomics #LSE#solidarity

Via #CBS News

#Tax cuts for the wealthy have long drawn support from conservative lawmakers and economists who argue that such measures will "trickle down" and eventually boost jobs and incomes for everyone else. But a new study from the #LondonSchoolOfEconomics says 50 years of such #TaxCuts have only helped one group — the rich.

#TrickleDown

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-rich-50-years-no-trickle-down/

50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says

Tax cuts for the wealthy didn't boost the economies of the U.S. and 17 other countries — but they did worsen income inequality.

Old-fashioned capitalism can’t help Britain’s lost workers get back in a job

The drive to make ill and disabled people productive again needs joined-up thinking, not a punitive regime of sanctions

The Guardian
World's first octopus farm proposals alarm scientists

Methods used on the Spanish farm would be "cruel" to such intelligent animals say experts, as details emerge.

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Heading to Madrid to share our work developing a simulation model of the Spanish #LongTermCare system and to hear from policy experts about the policy scenarios they would like to explore using the model. Perhaps one of the nicest parts of my job! #academicchatter #LondonSchoolOfEconomics

British households have paid £7bn (€8bn) since Brexit to cover the extra cost of trade barriers on food imports from the EU, according to researchers at the London School of Economics (LSE).

The university’s latest report estimating the impact of leaving the bloc on UK food prices found that trade barriers were consistently hampering imports, pushing up bills by an average £250 (€290).

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/24/brexit-food-trade-barriers-have-cost-uk-households-7bn-report-finds

#UK #EU #Brexit #Food #CostOfLiving #Trade #LSE #LondonSchoolOfEconomics

Brexit food trade barriers have cost UK households £7bn, report finds

LSE researchers estimate that extra barriers on EU food imports have pushed up bills by £250 on average

The Guardian
> English social psychologist and #LondonSchoolOfEconomics co-founder #GrahamWallas, sixty-eight at the time, penned The #ArtOfThought — an insightful theory outlining the four stages of the #CreativeProcess, based both on his own empirical observations and on the accounts of famous inventors and polymaths.. out of print, with surviving copies sold for a fortune and available in a few public libraries..
https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/08/28/the-art-of-thought-graham-wallas-stages/
#MariaPopova #Thinking #Wallas Is #Incubation related to #niksen?
The Art of Thought: A Pioneering 1926 Model of the Four Stages of Creativity

How to master the beautiful osmosis of conscious and unconscious, voluntary and involuntary, deliberate and serendipitous.

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