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London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science, often called the LSE, is one of the world's major specialist economics universities. It was founded in 1895 by Beatrice and Sidney Webb.
The school is regarded as a major hotbed of political debate and includes among its alumni 64 members of the lower and upper houses of the UK government and 24 other head of states.
LSE staff and alumni include:
- George Bernard Shaw (Nobel prize winner)
- Ralph Bunche[?] (Nobel prize winner)
- Bertrand Russell (Nobel prize winner)
- Philip Noel-Baker[?] (Nobel prize winner)
- Sir John Hicks (Nobel prize winner)
- Friedrich von Hayek (Nobel prize winner)
- James Meade[?] (Nobel prize winner)
- Arthur Lewis[?] (Nobel prize winner)
- Merton Miller[?] (Nobel prize winner)
- Ronald Coase (Nobel prize winner)
- Amartya Sen (Nobel prize winner)
- Robert Mundell (Nobel prize winner)
- George Akerlof[?] (Nobel prize winner)
- John F. Kennedy (US President)
- Romano Prodi (Italian prime minister)
- Cherie Booth[?] QC (wife of Tony Blair)
- Edwina Currie[?] (politician, author, radio presenter)
- Mick Jagger (Musician)
- Carlos the Jackal (criminal)
- Sir David Attenborough (TV Presenter)
- Robert Kilroy[?] (TV Presenter)
- George Soros (Billionaire)
- Mervyn Allister King Govenor of the Bank of England
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