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India's contradictions: snapshots from Kolkata and the Taj resort
Get PDFProfessor Robert Wade reflects on a luxury stay near Kolkata to provide a meditative critique of inequality, development, and the political economy of India
Mind the Skills Gap: communication
Get PDFIn this blog – part of a six-part series exploring essential career skills, we dive into the essential art of communication. It’s one of the most sought-after skills by employers, and we share how you can further develop it. Read insider advice from employers, alumni and faculty on building communications skills that drive career success. Plus, learn how to access careers support at LSE Department of Management, which helps equip you with the skills employers value most
Reshaping religious education in the UK
Get PDFProfessor James Walters, Director of the LSE Faith Centres, discusses how to embrace opportunities for change in religious education
Learning not to help in Nanjing and London–Cultural elaboration of empathy in childhood
Get PDFHelping is one of the key features of human sociality. The ethnographic record is pervaded by accounts of people doing things with and for each other from an early age. Developmental psychology has shown that by the time children begin to walk and talk, they already display helpful behavior in many situations. These findings suggest that the propensity to help is biologically based, rather than directly taught. While doing research on children's cooperation in Nanjing, China, and London, UK, it became clear to me that school‐aged children were socialized into not helping, rather than helping. This raises the question: what are some of the cultural and psychological processes shaping this core human behavior? To address this, I bring together three levels of culturally grounded analysis: helping behaviors, the cognition of empathy, and its emotional underpinnings. Drawing on cultural ontologies of personhood, I show that in London, children are expected to be generally helpful, but not at a great cost to themselves, while in Nanjing, there is less emphasis on general helpfulness, but highly costly helping is expected in particular relationships
What if Islamism is regionalism? ex-Siamese states in the 2018 Malaysian General Election
Get PDFAmidst tectonic shifts in Malaysian politics, recent electoral gains by the Islamists represent one of the most striking developments. The Islamist PAS party is winning seats beyond its traditional northeastern peninsular heartland, but is Malaysia as a whole shifting toward Islamism? What if it remains a regional phenomenon, and what is the extent of the Islamist region if it is now beyond the Northeast? Writes Morris Chan
Sequential change point detection with FDR control in reconfigurable sensor networks
No full textThis paper investigates sequential change-point detection in reconfigurable sensor networks. In this problem, data from multiple sensors are observed sequentially. Each sensor can have a unique change point, and the data distribution differs before and after the change. We aim to detect these changes as quickly as possible once they have occurred while controlling the false discovery rate at all times. Our setting is more realistic than traditional settings in that (1) the set of active sensors – i.e., those from which data can be collected – can change over time through the deactivation of existing sensors and the addition of new sensors, and (2) dependencies can occur both between sensors and across time points. We propose powerful e-value-based detection procedures that control the false discovery rate uniformly over time. Numerical experiments demonstrate that, with the same false discovery rate target, our procedures achieve superior performance compared to existing methods, exhibiting lower false non-discovery rates and reduced detection delays
Environmental leverage in times of climate crisis: product standards, carbon border measures and preferential trade agreements
No full textThis book offers a conceptually informed insight into the rise of 'environmental leverage' in times of climate crisis. The world is fast approaching a two degree Celsius increase in average global temperatures. Against this troubling background, trade-related environmental leverage aims to promote the uptake of more ambitious environmental standards by third countries and market actors involved in transnational supply chains. Trade-related environmental leverage can help to remedy the failures of environmental multilateralism, reshape the trade agenda to cater to the demands of our time, and entrench greener forms of development and more sustainable production and consumption patterns. Nonetheless, its boundaries must be appropriately circumscribed. The book assesses different forms of environmental leverage against the normative yardsticks of 'environmental integrity' and 'environmental legitimacy'. Environmental integrity targets 'green protectionism' and 'green discrimination', drawing a line between the promotion of environmental values and the protection of economic interests. Environmental legitimacy captures 'eco-imperialism', addressing the question of the treatment of differently situated countries and developing and least developed countries in particular. The book employs an in-depth analysis of three case studies to operationalise this conceptual framework, articulating the limits to environmental leverage in legal terms. Combining a close focus on environmental regulations with a rigorous assessment of trade law questions, the book is relevant to anybody working in the fields of environmental law and policy, climate change law, and international trade law
A morality evolutionary game theory can model
No full textEvolutionary game-theoretic (EGT) models of morality face powerful under-addressed objections. Critics claim the simulations fail to specify their explanandum, muddying their explanatory value. Additionally, morality is suggested to be not computationally representable, jeopardising the method’s general applicability. This paper explicates and addresses the objections. I argue at least one concrete explication of morality, emotionism coupled with functionally understood emotions, can be a plausible subject of EGT explanations. I demonstrate how fixing this explanandum assuages the methodological objections and provide a computational model as proof of concept. If successful, the contribution placates serious long-standing criticisms of EGT as a meta-ethical tool
