Apes or Angels: What is the Origin of Ethics? (Part 1)
The Lorne Trottier Science Symposium brings together an international panel of experts in economics and evolutionary biology to see what economic theory and natural selection have to say about ethics and human development.
Giving in the Digital World
For charitable organizations and initiatives, the Internet provides the opportunity to reach more people in more direct and personal ways. Are they grasping this opportunity? Following on the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010, generous individuals around the world used their mobile phones to make more than $40 million in gifts to aid organisations. More than $1 billion in gifts came in the next four weeks, a large percentage of which was donated online. But the real stories of how digital tec
Asia Forum 2006 Opening Session
Discussions were led by LSE academics: Professor Danny Quah, Head of Economics Department; Dr Razeen Sally, senior lecturer in international political economy and head of the international trade policy unit and Professor Robert Wade, professor of political economy and development at DESTIN. Other speakers included: Sheila Dikshit, chief minister of Delhi; Nandan M Nilekani, chief executive officer of Infosys; Mr Sun Yuxi, Chinese Ambassador to India, and Dr YV Reddy, governor of the Reserve Bank
Understanding the Equity Premium Puzzle
Professor Constantanides is one of the most prominent and creative research scholars in the field of financial economics, in particular of theories of asset and derivatives pricing. He will present theoretical and empirical research on three classes of generalizations of the standard neoclassical model and will discuss their contribution towards a better understanding of equity risk premium.
Learning outcomes After studying this unit you should be able to: Demonstrate a critical understanding of the concept of ’ (knowledge and understanding); Engage with and review debates about selected key concepts relevant to the study of families and personal relationships; Identify connections between concepts and the themes they raise for research and for social policy; Understand some of the social processes underlying research around family issue
3. Internet Economics
Technology, worldwide web, infrastructure, network, architecture, global, ownership, computer, science, neutrality, telecommunications, economics, policy, packet, TCP, internet protocol, peer to peer, transit, routing, filtering, deregulation, autonomous,
1. Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Oil Substitutes: Dynamics, Resources, and Systems Behavior (Septemb
Science, technology, environment, natural resources, energy, fossil fuels, transportation, economics, petroleum, peak oil, biofuels, liquid fuels, energy carriers, tar sands, enhanced oil recovery, ethanol, net primary productivity, climate change, biodiv
2. America's Energy Future: Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass (September 30, 2009)
Science, Environmental Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Civil Engineering, Math, Chemistry, Economics, Agriculture, Ecology, Public Policy, Energy, liquid fuel, carbon capture, electricity, renewable, coal, woody biomass, emissions, barrel, optimized cost, su
1. Transforming Our Energy Economy: the Role of Renewable Energy (April 1, 2009)
environmental biology, translational science, chemistry, physics, biochemical conversion, engineering, energy, economics, greenhouse gas, GHG, mitigation, ecosystem, managing risk, sustainable development, renewable energy, fuel, consumption, policy, educ
2. What are the "Killer Apps" of the Smart Grid? (April 22, 2009)
Environmental Studies, Science, Physics, Chemical Engineering, Biology, politics, energy, electricity consumption infrastructure, economics, smart grid, buzz word, Google search term, meter, distribution, transmission, generation, renewable energy, storag
3. Why the United States Has Yet to Benefit From Electricity Industry Re-structuring (And What Can B
Environmental Studies, Science, Physics, Chemical Engineering, Biology, energy, electricity, economics, regulation, cost of service, consumer, market design mechanism, bid, provider, price, produce, monopoly, public utilities commission, Pacific Gas & Ele
4. Adaptation to Climate Change (May 6, 2009)
environmental biology, science, chemistry, energy, religion, economics, maladaptation,greenhouse gas, GHG, mitigation activity, vulnerability, sensitivity, miscommunication, ecosystem, managing risk, response capacity, adjust livelihood, impact, sustaina
5. Life: Laser Inertial Fusion Energy System for Sustainable, Carbon-Free Energy Future (May 13, 200
environmental biology, science, chemistry, physics, engineering, energy, economics, greenhouse gas, GHG, mitigation, ecosystem, managing risk, sustainable development, energy, fuel, neutron, electron, magnetic inertial fusion gain, limitless fuel, carbon
1. When the Rubber Hits the Road: The Real Story on Fuel Economy (January 7, 2009)
science, economics, engineering, environment, global warming, energy, climate change, policy, technology, research, education, international issues, oil, fuel emissions, carbon, transportation, congestion, car, mileage, automobile, vehicle, bus transit, A
1. Overcoming the Resource Curse (September 24, 2008)
science, economics, politics, oil, poverty, corruption, international relations, energy, authoritarian rule, government corruption, dictatorship, oil dependence, developing countries, market volatility, Africa, oil prices, energy crisis, environment, tran
3. Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy (October 8, 2008)
science, geography, energy, environment, geopolitics, politics, international relations, energy policy, natural resources, oil, natural gas, North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO), Africa, China, Europe, energy crisis, economics, climate change, global
2. Evaluation of Proposed Energy Solutions to Climate Change, Air Pollution, and Energy Security (Oc
science, energy, climate change, global warming, fossil fuels, greenhouse gases, pollution, renewable resources, carbon dioxide emissions, nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, corn ethanol, environmental economics, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IP
7. Equitable Solutions to the Carbon and Climate Problem (November 5, 2008)
science, climate change, global warming, carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, fossil fuels, international relations, environmental economics, trees, atmospheric gases, nitrogen, biology, emissions, China, financial crisis, technology, Intergovernmental Panel
10. Marine Energy Technology: Making Waves or Riding the Currents? (December 3, 2008)
science, alternative energy, marine technology, ocean energy, environmental economics, wave power, tidal power, renewable resources, energy resources engineering, power density, wind power, energy efficiency, hydropower, natural resources, marine power, w
4.8 General equation of a conic
Attempts to answer problems in areas as diverse as science, technology and economics involve solving simultaneous linear equations. In this unit we look at some of the equations that represent points, lines and planes in mathematics. We explore concepts such as Euclidean space, vectors, dot products and conics.
