LSE US Centre

@LSE_US

The United States Centre at LSE is a hub for global expertise, analysis and commentary on America.

Joined May 2015

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  1. Thanks to all who came to "The Yanks Are Coming!" Check out our Storify for a brief history of LSE & US!

  2. The LSE is not an English institution. It is a fundamentally global institution & the founders of the School truly believed that

  3. With Trump’s election, the LSE could have even more American students, some perhaps claiming political asylum…

  4. The Rockefeller Foundation’s contributions to the LSE from 1923 onwards led it to be labelled by some as “Rockefeller’s baby”

  5. To Beatrice and Sidney Webb, founders of the School, America represented the age of the future in the 1870s

  6. One American student when asked why he attended the LSE replied “if it’s cool enough for Mick Jagger, it’s cool enough for me!”

  7. How could we forget that President Bartlet got his Masters and PhD from the LSE!

  8. The Yanks Are Coming! LSE in the American Century

  9. Radical American students from Berkeley that came to the LSE in the 60s were denounced by Lionel Robbins as “foreign agitators”!

  10. Americans of different persuasions-leftists, marxists, conservatives, communists-felt at home at LSE...but for different reasons

  11. Prof. Mick Cox, funny and interesting as always, on "The Yanks Are Coming!"

  12. ...and you can add Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, Paul Krugman, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy to that list!

  13. Ralph Bunche, David Rockefeller, George Soros, Paul Volcker, and Joe Kennedy are just a few of the notable US LSE alumni

  14. “The school today has 25,000 American alumni - which speaks volumes about the LSE-US relationship”

  15. "It's quite clear that a large number of Americans have found a home at the LSE ever since it was founded in 1895" Prof. Cox

  16. Tonight at 6.30pm: Our Director Michael Cox is speaking on how America has influenced LSE. Join us or Follow on &

  17. We're looking forward to our event "The Yanks Are Coming!" TONIGHT! Join us in the NAB at 6:30PM

  18. The US centre at the LSE inspects the election result with close scrutiny :

  19. Thanks to all who came to our Fed Power event yesterday!

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