Friday, 26 April 2013

How to Kill Nightingales and not Build Houses: Insist on building on Brownfields

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Posted by Paul Cheshire, SERC and LSE The planning system is supposed to safeguard amenity, our wild places and the environment. I have...
Tuesday, 9 April 2013

Diversity, cities and business performance: some new evidence from the UK

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Posted by Dr Max Nathan, SERC, LSE and NIESR Like many Western countries, the UK has become substantially more ethnically and culturally ...
Thursday, 28 March 2013

The State of the LEPs

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Posted by Andy Pike, CURDS and SERC Two and half years on the birth of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) in England, we’ve r...
Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Housing – and more than housing: what a bad budget!

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Posted by Paul Cheshire, SERC and LSE The British housing market, especially the English housing market, is in crisis. This is not ...
Friday, 22 March 2013

QE: the next bubble?

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Posted by Christian Hilber and Paul Cheshire, SERC and LSE QuantitativeEasing (QE) has been pursued by Central Banks in many countrie...
Thursday, 21 March 2013

Budget: Housing and Heseltine

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I haven't had much chance to take in the details of the budget. Two big issues in the area of spatial economics. Housing The decision...
Friday, 15 March 2013

Want to live somewhere nice? Be ready to work longer

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Posted by Teresa Schlueter, LSE and SERC Everyone knows that both wages and the cost of living vary a great deal across the UK. There...