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Getting Less for More: Economic Evaluation in theSocial Welfare Field

Sefton, Tom - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

Economic evaluation has an important role in helping to make decisionsabout the use of scarce resources in an explicit … and rational manner, yeteconomic evaluation is not well-developed in many areas of socialwelfare. This paper looks at the … evaluation may not always be appropriate,because of the nature of many social welfare interventions and becauseevaluators need to …

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A Journey Through Times and Cultures? Ancient Greek Forms in American Nineteenth-Century Architecture: An Archaeological View

Schneider, Lambert - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

The presence of classical architectural features in modernWestern architecture shows that knowledge from ancient timeswas travelling through both space and time. Yet despite surfacesimilarities, the architecture of revival was very different to that ofantiquity. The classicistic architecture of...

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Escaping the Laboratory: The Rodent Experiments of John B. Calhoun & Their Cultural Influence

Ramsden, Edmund; Adams, Jon - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

In John B. Calhoun’s early crowding experiments, rats weresupplied with everything they needed – except space. The resultwas a population boom, followed by such severe psychologicaldisruption that the animals died off to extinction. The take-homemessage was that crowding resulted in...

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Carlyle and the French Enlightenment: Transitional Readings of Voltaire and Diderot

Hochstrasser, T. J. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

culture and hisvexed and contradictory relationship with its French counterpart.[...] …

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Opinion on bank rate, 1822 - 60

Cramp, A. B. - 1962

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National and Regional Factors in the New York Metropolitan Economy

MacCarthy, Jonathan; Steindel, Charles - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1997

This paper explores the connections betweenbroad economic indicators in the New Yorkmetropolitan region and their national counterparts.It compares the performance of theregion in recent years with that of the nation and assessesthe importance of national and local developments for thearea’s...

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Industrial Restructuring in the New York Metropolitan Area

Orr, James - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1997

[...]This paper analyzes the industrial restructuringprocess in the New York metropolitan area in the first halfof the 1990s.1 It shows that the restructuring was accompaniedby a decline in the labor force, particularly in NewYork, where the decline persisted through the first half ofthe 1990s....

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Business Services and the Economic Performance of the New York Metropolitan Region

Noyelle, Thierry - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1997

As correctly noted by Matthew Drennan in his paper forthis conference, the nature of the transformation that hasoccurred in the New York metropolitan region since 1989is rather mixed. Although the region has regained onlyhalf of the 625,000 jobs it lost during the 1989-92 period,aggregate...

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The Outlook for the Metropolitan Area

Netzer, Dick - New York University / Department of Economics; London … - 1997

Much of the discourse about regional andlocal economic development strategiesin the United States over the pasttwenty-five years has looked like asearch for general rules. Very few such rules have emerged,in part because—like all policy debates—there have beenlarge inputs of ideology and...

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Study on the impact of marketing through social media, online games and mobile applications on children's behaviour : Final Report

Lupiáñez - Villanueva, Francisco (contributor); … - London School of Economics and Political Science; … - 2016

systematic literature review, a review of legislation and regulatory framework at EU and Member State level, in-depth analysis of …

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