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...A TV play that evolved into a musical (WH Auden wrote the original lyrics, only for the producers to ditch him and hire Broadway pro Joe Darion), it is based on the conceit that we’re watching Cervantes...
...Lord Lipsey, chairman of the Committee, said: We are seeing more opinion polls than ever in recent elections but their greater frequency has not been matched by greater accuracy....
...Daniel Messé’s workmanlike score (lyrics co-written by Nathan Tysen) is similarly devoid of genuine French flare, owing more to the sentimental Broadway tradition of Joe Darion and Andrew Lloyd Webber than...
...– From the WSJ: Was Aubrey McClendon a billionaire, or broke? – KPMG offshore tax dodge a ‘facade’ designed to hide money, ex-client says. – Richard Lipsey and the Phillips Curve redux....
...Sir, The economists Richard Lipsey and Kelvin Lancaster pointed out in the 1950s that the first-best policies applied in a second-best world result in third-best outcomes....
...Richard Lipsey, emeritus professor of economics at Simon Fraser University in Canada, and an authority on technology trends, is also bullish. He points to a list of current changes....
...Lord Lipsey, a Labour peer, described the £23,250 means-tested threshold as a huge restriction that would mean “very few people will take advantage of the deferred payment scheme”....
...In 1970, a widely quoted study by economics professors Richard Lipsey and Michael Parkin proclaimed that if the UK could only tolerate an adult unemployment rate of 2.1 per cent (then regarded as high),...
...When the row over the cost broke out in April the opponents were using a £433m estimate based on figures by Labour peer Lord Lipsey – who admitted that these might be a bit out of date....
...In our press conference we made it absolutely clear that Lord Lipsey’s calculations were the only ones on offer when we drafted our Alternative Report....
...Lord Lipsey, a Labour peer, has estimated that the elected chamber could cost an extra £433m from 2015 to 2020....
...Baroness Shephard, a Tory member of the committee, said the best estimate was from Lord Lipsey, who had given evidence that the reforms could cost an extra £433m from 2015 to 2020....
...The authors of the minority report have asked me to talk to Lipsey and he’s unreachable. FURTHER UPDATE: I’ve reached Lipsey and he admitted that his figures could be out by more than £100m....
...With an injection of personal money and years of experience of running Lipsey’s, a distributor of outdoor sporting goods, the family decided to try again to reinvigorate the brand, launching a spring line...
...Lord Lipsey says the relevance has been enhanced by word-processors: it has got so much easier to keep adding ill-considered bits to legislation that need to be queried: “A special adviser will have a thought...
...Labour’s David Lipsey then asked a second, killer question: where were ads placed before the appointment of Sir Michael and what salary was offered....
...Lord Lipsey said the underlying logic was reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland....
...Sheer hindsight brilliance from PhD scholars who actually believe everything they read in a Lipsey & Steiner paperback....
...Lord Lipsey and Lord Joffe, who in 1999 wrote a minority report rejecting the commission’s majority proposal for free personal care for all, said the move will create perverse incentives....
...Lord Lipsey said there was a danger that the interests of consumers of financial services would not be properly represented....
...such as in a bank....
...Lipsey, a former journalist, has costed the government’s proposal for a hybrid Lords at more than £1bn for the first term of the elected peers. And that, he remarks, is a conservative estimate....
...Citing the “Theory of Second Best”, based on the 1956 work of economists Kelvin Lancaster and Richard Lipsey, Mr El-Erian looks at how investors have had to adjust their approach to account for the way in...
...The “Theory of Second Best”, which dates back to the 1956 work of two economists Kelvin Lancaster and Richard Lipsey, provides a useful framework for thinking about all this....
...Lord Lipsey, a Labour peer and chairman of Make Votes Count, the lobby group, said: “The British first-past-the-post electoral system has reduced the general election to a travesty of democracy....
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