LSE Blogs

Following #Trump’s election victory in November, Michael Cox (LSE IDEAS LSE Department of International Relations) looks at some of the many explanations advanced to explain why either Kamala Harris lost, or Trump won. In a deeply polarised society, it is hardly surprising to discover that no consensus has thus far emerged to explain the deeper causes and meaning of Trump’s victory. Of one thing we can be certain however: the #US and the world are in for a very bumpy ride. LSE United States Centre

The dramatic overthrow and ouster of the Awami League government led by Sheikh Hasina in #Bangladesh in August 2024 has opened up unknown vistas for the country. Kazi A. S. M. Nurul Huda looks at the freedoms gained, and what one can learn and discern from it all.

John Lathrop, Irem Dikmen Toker, Dr Emma Soane and Terje Aven helped create the Risk Analysis Quality Test and discuss how #RiskAnalysis can be improved in an organisation. LSE Business Review

"Lack of knowledge about poverty is not what is hampering action to address it." Sarah Kerr LSE International Inequalities Institute spoke to LSE Review of Books about her new book, Wealth, Poverty and Enduring Inequality: Let’s Talk Wealtherty, published by Policy Press which makes the case that we need to focus on #wealth if we want to reduce #poverty.

What will #Trump 2.0 mean for #crypto, the regulatory landscape and the movement to fight climate change? Antulio Rosales (York University) and Ty T. Universitetet i Oslo (UiO) | University of Oslo for LSE Business Review. Read the post here 👉 https://lnkd.in/e8Eu-rf7

Member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) are in the process of negotiating a new #treaty to help tackle future #pandemics. Yet as Clare Wenham (LSE Department of Health Policy), Mark Eccleston-Turner (Department of Global Health and Social Medicine King's College London) and Harry Upton explain on LSE European Politics and Policy, it remains unclear how the treaty will integrate with existing legal instruments.

You may not know it, but people crave #feedback. Research tells us that people avoid giving feedback because they don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings or embarrass them. Another possibility is that they don’t want to be the bearer of bad news. Nicole Abi-Esber (LSE Department of Management) writes that there’s a third reason at play: people may underestimate how much others value receiving it.

#GenerativeAI is having a transformative effect on #academic work, but it is also reshaping the professional services and #research management sectors that support it. On LSE Impact Blog Anna Aston discusses where AI can be useful for research management and the tools research managers can use in different areas of their work.

The #NHS expenditure on #pharmaceuticals, especially in hospital settings, has outpaced the expenditure on other healthcare services. There is a question on whether this allocation of money is the most efficient in terms of saving lives. Huseyin Naci (LSE Department of Health Policy), Peter Murphy, Beth Woods, James Lomas (all three Centre for Health Economics University of York), Jinru Wei and Irene Papanicolas (both (Brown University School of Public Health) argue that the way the NICE - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence calculates the cost-benefit analysis for new drugs should be more transparent, taking into consideration those who will lose out due to reduced resources for other treatments. LSE British Politics and Policy

How do researchers consider the idea and role of #luck in relation to academic success? 🍀 Considering how the idea of is mobilised by different groups and to different effect in #academia, Jonatan Nästesjö argues luck can play a positive and negative role in maintaining status hierarchies. LSE Impact Blog