A world centre for advanced research in the social, political and economic sciences, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) teaches more than 7,000 students through 18 academic departments and 30 research centres and institutes. Founded in 1895 by British Fabians Beatrice and Sidney Webb, LSE became a college of the University of London in 1900. LSE boasts a high degree of interaction with the world's economic, political, industrial and business leaders, professions and public administration.
A year has passed since the events of September 11 and much of the world is still trying to comprehend the motives of the attackers. What ideologies lay behind the atrocities, and how has the world responded to them? From Vietnam to the IRA and the PLO, such challenges to the international order have enjoyed a degree of sympathy from Western progressives, trade unionists and democratic socialists. Will the current threat to international order also gain the sympathies of the progressive left, or are the ideologies and motives at issue here too illiberal and alien?
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From: London School of Economics and Political Science
For years, David Landes has analysed the distribution of wealth through historical studies of world economics. He argues that the key to today's disparity between the rich and poor nations of the world stems directly from the industrial revolution.
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A world centre for advanced research in the social, political and economic sciences, 
