June 2013

Andrew Clark PSE, Ecole normale supérieure  48 boulevard Jourdan  75014 Paris France Tel : 33 (0)1 43 13 63 29  Fax: 33 (0)1 43 13 63 10 Mail: Andrew.Clark@ens.fr CNRS Directeur de recherche/Research Professor.

 
 

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• Research Fellow at IZA.
• Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
• Senior Research Fellow, CRESS, Kingston University.
  
• Senior Fellow of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis.
• Visiting Professor and Research Associate at the Centre for Corporate Performance, Aarhus School of Business.
  
• Director of the "Labour" programme of PSE.
  
• Co-director of the "Labour" programme of CEPREMAP.
  

Acronym information (AKA "PSE, PSE. So good they named it twice"): I used to be at DELTA, but now I'm at PSE. That's because DELTA merged with CERAS and the two research groups of CEPREMAP to form PSE, which thus now has four different governing bodies (CNRS-EHESS-ENPC-ENS). I hope that everything is now clear. But of course, four is not really enough, so in January 2010 we merged with INRA-LEA (who are already on the Jourdan campus), adding the INRA as a fifth governing body.

Oh, and PSE is sort of joining forces with (some of) University Paris 1 to form the Paris School of Economics. To sum up, I am at PSE, which is part of PSE.


Activities

• I organise the WIP (Work In Progress) seminar for PhD students (30 minute presentation: great practice for conferences!). Contact me if you would like to present. The Labour and Public Economics seminar (which is more international/external) is organised by Luc Behaghel .
• Board of Directors of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS).
• Exectutive Committe, European Association of Labour Economists (EALE).
• Scientific Advisory Board, European Social Survey (ESS).
• Chair of the External advisory board of the Institute for Economic Analysis of Decision Making (InstEAD)
  
• International Scientific Advisory Panel, Behavioural Sciences Institute of Singapore Management University (BSI).
  
• The Eleventh ISQOLS conference was held in Venice, November 1st-4th, 2012.
  
• Member of the United Nations Well-Being Group. Don't believe me? Check out this photo then.
  
• The new ISQOLS journal, Applied Research in Quality of Life (Springer) is actively soliciting contributions.

Research Interests

Applied Microeconomics. The use of job and life satisfaction data to analyse labour market phenomena. Modelling the utility function: comparisons and habituation. Social interactions, and social learning. Job quality. The economic analysis of drug markets and cigarette consumption. Generallly funky stuff.

Thèmes de recherche

Microéconomie Appliquée. L'analyse du marché du travail en faisant appel aux données sur la satisfaction dans le travail et la satisfaction dans la vie. La modélisation de la fonction d'utilité : normes, comparaisons et accoutumance. Les interactions sociales et l'apprentissage social. La qualité de l'emploi. L'analyse économique de la consommation des produits à risque. 

A Full CV in PDF format is here.

Publications

• UK unemployment, Heinemann Educational, 1989, Second edition, 1993 (both with Richard Layard). Third edition, 1997 (with Richard Layard and Marcus Rubin).
• "Efficient Bargains and the McDonald-Solow Conjecture", Journal of Labor Economics, (October 1990), 8, pp.502-528.
• "Trade Union Utility Functions: A Survey of Union Leaders' Views" (with Andrew Oswald), Industrial Relations, (Fall 1993), 32, pp.391-411.
• "Adding up the Pros and Cons of Legalization", International Journal of Drug Policy, (Autumn 1993), 4, pp.116-121.
• "Unhappiness and Unemployment" (with Andrew Oswald), Economic Journal, (May 1994), 104, pp.648-659. 
• "Changes in Economic Activity" (with Shirley Dex, Kim Perren, David Rose and Mark Taylor), in Changing Households, Buck, N., Gershuny, J., Rose, D., and Scott, J. (eds.), ESRC Research Centre Press, 1994.
• "Is Job Satisfaction U-shaped in Age" (with Andrew Oswald and Peter Warr), Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, (Spring 1996), 69, pp.57-81.
• "L'utilité est-elle relative ? Analyse à l'aide de données sur les ménages", Economie et Prévision, (1996), no.121, pp.151-164.
• "Job Satisfaction in Britain", British Journal of Industrial Relations, (June 1996), 34, pp.189-217.
• "Satisfaction and Comparison Income" (with Andrew Oswald), Journal of Public Economics, (September 1996), 61, pp.359-81.
• "Job Satisfaction and Gender: Why are Women so Happy at Work?", Labour Economics, (December 1997), 4, pp.341-372.
• "Comparison-concave Utility and Following Behaviour in Social and Economic Settings" (with Andrew Oswald), Journal of Public Economics, (October 1998), 70, pp.133-155.
• "Job Satisfaction, Wage Changes and Quits: Evidence from Germany" (with Yannis Georgellis and Peter Sanfey), Research in Labor Economics , (1998), 17, pp.95-121.
• "Are Wages Habit-Forming? Evidence from Micro Data", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (June 1999), 39, pp.179-200.
• "Utilité Relative ou Utilité Absolue ? État des Lieux", Revue Economique, (May 2000), 51, pp.459-471.
• "What Really Matters in a Job? Hedonic Measurement Using Quit Data", Labour Economics, (May 2001), 8, pp.223-242.
• "Scarring: the Psychological Impact of Past Unemployment", (with Yannis Georgellis and Peter Sanfey), Economica, (May 2001), 68, pp.221-241.
• "Well-Being and Wage Arrears in Russian Panel Data", (with Mathilde Maurel), HSE Economic Journal, (May 2001), 5, pp.179-193.
• "Interactions In Labour Force Status, As Revealed By Proxy Utility Data", Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, (July-December 2001), 63-64, pp.21-37.
• "Do Health Changes Affect Smoking? Evidence from British Panel Data", (with Fabrice Etilé), Journal of Health Economics, (July 2002), 21,  pp.533-562.
• "A Simple Statistical Model for Measuring How Life Events Affect Happiness" (with Andrew Oswald), International Journal of Epidemiology, (December 2002), 31, pp.1139-1144.
  
• "Re-Examining Adaptation and the Setpoint Model of Happiness: Reaction to Changes in Marital Status" (with Ed Diener,Yannis Georgellis and Richard Lucas), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, (March 2003), 84, pp.527-539.
  
• "Unemployment as a Social Norm: Psychological Evidence from Panel Data", Journal of Labor Economics, (April 2003), 21, pp.323-351.
• "Unemployment Alters the Set-Point for Life Satisfaction" (with Ed Diener, Yannis Georgellis and Richard Lucas), Psychological Science, (January 2004), 15, pp.8-13.
• "La modélisation collective de l'offre de travail : mise en perspective et application aux données britanniques" (with Hélène Couprie and Catherine Sofer), Revue Economique, (July 2004), 55, pp.767-789. 
• “Heterogeneity in Reported Well-Being: Evidence from Twelve European Countries” (with Fabrice Etilé, Fabien Postel-Vinay, Claudia Senik, and Karine van der Straeten), Economic Journal, (March 2005), 115, pp.C118-C132..
  
• “What Makes a Good Job? Evidence from OECD Countries” in Job Quality and Employer Behaviour, Bazen, S., Lucifora, C. and Salverda, W. (eds.), Palgrave, 2005, pp.11-30.
• “Your Money or Your Life: Changing Job Quality in OECD Countries”, British Journal of Industrial Relations, (September 2005), 43, pp.377-400.
  
• “The (Unexpected) Structure of “Rents” on the French and British Labour Markets” (with Claudia Senik), Journal of Socio-Economics, (April 2006), 35, pp.180-196.
  
• “Health Changes and Smoking: An Economic Analysis” (with Fabrice Etilé), Substance Use and Misuse, (April 2006), 41, pp.427-451.
  
• “Effort, revenu et rang : une étude expérimentale” (with David Masclet and Marie-Claire Villeval), Revue Economique, (May 2006), 57, pp.635-643.
  
• “Don’t Give Up on Me Baby: Spousal Correlation in Smoking Behaviour” (with Fabrice Etilé), Journal of Health Economics, (September 2006), 25, pp.958-978.
• “Do People Really Adapt to Marriage?” (with Rich Lucas), Journal of Happiness Studies, (November 2006), 7, pp.405-426.
• “Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration”, Applied Economics Quarterly, (December 2006), Vol.52, no.4, pp.291-308.
• “It wasn't me, It was them! Social Influence in Risky Behaviour by Adolescents” (withYouenn Loheac), Journal of Health Economics, (July 2007), Vol.26, no.4, pp.763-784.
• “Statut résidentiel et durée de chômage en France et au Royaume - Uni” (with Carole Brunet and Jean-Yves Lesueur), Revue Française d’Economie, (October 2007), Vol.22, no.2, pp.165-190.
  
• “Conditions de collecte et santé auto-déclarée : Une analyse sur données européennes”, (with Augustin Vicard), Economie et Statistique,  (December 2007), Vol.403-404, pp.143-163. 39.   
  
• “La croissance rend-elle heureux ? La réponse des données subjectives”, (with Claudia Senik), in 27 Questions D'Economie Contermporaine. Economiques 1, P. Askenazy and D. Cohen (eds.), Albin Michel, (2008).
  
• “Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles” (with Paul Frijters and Mike Shields), Journal of Economic Literature, (March 2008), Vol.46, no.1, pp.95-144.
• “Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis”, (with Ed Diener, Yannis Georgellis and Rich Lucas), Economic Journal, (June 2008), Vol.118, no.529, pp.F222-F243. [Here are large-format adaptation graphs] [July 2008 Press Release]
• “Never the Same After the First Time: The Satisfaction of the Second-Generation Self-Employed” (with Nathalie Colombier and David Masclet), International Journal of Manpower, (2008), Vol.29, no.7, pp.591-609.
• Job Satisfaction and Co-Worker Wages: Status or Signal?” (with Nicolai Kristensen and Niels Westergaard-Nielsen), Economic Journal, (2009), Vol.119, no.536, pp.430-447. [March 2008 Press Release]
• “Job Security and Job Protection” (with Fabien Postel-Vinay), Oxford Economic Papers, (2009), Vol.61, no.2, pp.207-239.
• “Measuring well-being across Europe:  Description of the ESS Well-being Module and preliminary findings”, (with Felicia Huppert, Nic Marks,  Johannes Siegrist,  Alois Stutzer, Joar Vittersø and Morten Wahrdorf), Social Indicators Research, (2009). Vol.91, no.3, pp.301-315.
• “Economic Satisfaction and Income Rank in Small Neighbourhoods” (with Nicolai Kristensen and Niels Westergaard-Nielsen), Journal of the European Economic Association, (2009), Vol.7, no.2-3, pp. 519-527.
• “Unemployment as a Social Norm in Germany” (with Andreas Knabe and Steffen Rätzel), Schmollers Jahrbuch, (2009), Vol.129, no.2, pp. 251-260.
• “Valuing Jobs Via Retirement: European Evidence” (with Yarine Fawaz), National Institute Economic Review, (2009), No.209, pp. 88-103.
• “Boon or Bane? Well-being, Others’ Unemployment, and Labor-Market Risk” (with Andreas Knabe and Steffen Rätzel), Labour Economics, (2010), Vol.17, no.1, pp.52-61.
• “Effort and Comparison Income” (with David Masclet and Marie-Claire Villeval), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, (2010), Vol.63, no.3, pp.407-426.
• “Work, Jobs and Well-being Across the Millennium”, in E. Diener, J. Helliwell, and D. Kahneman (Eds.), International Differences in Well-Being. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2010). 
• “Promouvoir la réciprocité dans le travail”, In P. Askenazy & D. Cohen (Eds.), Nouvelles Questions D'Economie Contemporaine. Economiques 2. Paris: Albin Michel, (2010).
• “Who compares to whom? The anatomy of income comparisons in Europe” (with Claudia Senik), Economic Journal, (2010), Vol.120, no.544, pp. 573-594.
• “Where Should We Live?”, Review of Economic Analysis, (2010), Vol.2, no.1, pp.20-31.
• “Worker Well-Being in Booms and Busts”, in The Labour Market in Winter: The State of Working Britain, Wadsworth, J., and Gregg, P. (Eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2011), pp. 128-143.
• “The Organisational Commitment of Workers in OECD Countries”, Management Revue, (2011), Vol.22, no.1, pp. 8-27.
  
• “Is Happiness Different From Flourishing? Cross-Country Evidence from the ESS”, (with Claudia Senik), Revue d’Economie Politique, (2011), Vol.121, no.1, pp. 17-34.
• “Stepping Off the Hedonic Treadmill: Individual Differences in Response to Marriage, Divorce, and Spousal Bereavement” (with George Bonanno and Anthony Mancini), Journal of Individual Differences, (2011), Vol.32, no.3, pp. 144–152.
• “Income and Happiness: Getting the Debate Straight”. Applied Research in Quality of Life, (2011), Vol.6, no.3, pp. 253-263.
• “Public Employment and Political Pressure: The Case of French Hospitals”, (with Carine Milcent), Journal of Health Economics, (2011), Vol.30, no.5, pp. 1103-1112.
• “Happy House: Spousal Weight and Individual Well-Being”, (with Fabrice Etilé), Journal of Health Economics, (2011), Vol.30, no.5, pp. 1124-1136.
• “Will GDP growth increase happiness in developing countries?”, (with Claudia Senik), in Robert Peccoud (Ed.) Measure For Measure: How well do we Measure Development?, Paris: STIN, (2011), pp. 99-176. [French version « La croissance du PIB rendra-t-elle les habitants des pays en développement plus heureux ? », Revue d’Economie du Développement, (2011), Vol.25, no.2-3, pp. 113-190].
• “The causes of happiness and misery”, (with Richard Layard and Claudia Senik), Chapter 3 in the UN World Happiness Report. [Download here]
  
• “Beneath, Behind and Between: Social Comparisons and Adaptation”, Keio Economic Studies, (2012), Vol.48, pp. 123-125.
  
• “Dans les temps les pires, les goûts en ligne de mire”, in 5 crises, 11 nouvelles questions d’économie contemporaine. Economiques 3, P. Askenazy and D. Cohen (Eds.), Paris: Albin Michel, 2013, pp. 425-430.
• “Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life”, in Policies for Happiness, Bartolini, S. (Ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
• “Social interactions and self-perceived health and well-being”, Revue d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, forthcoming.
• “Back to Baseline in Britain: Adaptation in the BHPS” (with Yannis Georgellis), Economica, forthcoming.
• “Money, Well-Being, and Loss Aversion: Does an Income Loss Have a Greater Effect on Well-Being than an Equivalent Income Gain?” (with Chris Boyce, James Banks, Gordon Brown and Alex Wood), Psychological Science, forthcoming.

          Working Papers


• “Well-Being in Panels” (with Andrew Oswald). [December 2002]
• “The Economics of Drug Legalization”. [May 2003]
• “Inequality-Aversion and Income Mobility: A Direct Test”. [June 2003]
• “Looking for Labour Market Rents Using Subjective Data”. [September 2003]
• “Kahneman meets the Quitters: Peak-End Behaviour in the Labour Market” (with Yannis Georgellis). [February 2004]
• “Deliver us from Evil: Religion as Insurance” (with Orsolya Lelkes). [December 2005] [March 2008 Press Release]
  
• “The Curved Relationship Between Subjective Well-Being and Age” (with Andrew Oswald). [October 2006]
• “Born To Be Mild? Cohort Effects Don’t (Fully) Explain Why Well-Being is U-Shaped in Age”. [November 2007]
• “Let Us Pray: Religious Interactions In Life Satisfaction” (with Orsolya Lelkes). [January 2009]
• “Upward Social Mobility, Wellbeing and Political Preferences: Evidence from the BHPS” (with Emanuela D'Angelo). [March 2009]
• “The Value of Diplomacy. Bilateral Relations and Immigrant Well-Being” (with Leonardo Becchetti and Elena Giachin). [February 2011]
• “Winning Big but Feeling No Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health” (with Bénédicte Apouey). [March 2011]
• “The Great Happiness Moderation”, (with Sarah Flèche and Claudia Senik). [July 2012]
  
• “Income Comparisons in China”, (with Claudia Senik).  [October 2012]
• “The Joneses in Japan: Income Comparisons and Financial Satisfaction”, (with Claudia Senik and Katsunori Yamada).  [February 2013]
• “Poverty and Well-Being: Panel Evidence from Germany”, (with Conchita D’Ambrosio and Simone Ghislandi) [March 2013]
• “Economic Growth Equalizes Happiness”, (with Sarah Flèche and Claudia Senik).
  
• “Marital Separation and Social Norms: The Role Of Unemployment” (with Anne Solaz).
• “Getting a Good Night: Unemployment and Sleep”.
• “Income and Happiness: a semi-parametric investigation” (with Valentin Patilea).
• “Values, Votes and Slopes: Political Behaviour and the Marginal Utility of Income” (with Fabrice Etilé).
  
• “Adaptation in the East” (with Ekaterina Uglanova).
• “Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes”, (with Charlotte Cabane).
• “Retirement and the Marginal Utility of Income”, (with Yarine Fawaz).
• “Contingent Pay, Wages and Worker Well-Being”, (with Alex Bryson and Richard Freeman)
• “Experimental and survey evidence about attitudes to inequality”, (with Conchita D’Ambrosio)
• “What Causes a Successful Life? A Model of the Life-Course”, (with Richard Layard, Francesca Cornaglia, Nick Powdthavee and James Venoit)
  

Citations

On Tour!

Teaching

I teach in the Master's Programmes at the EHESS/Paris 1, and at Paris 1/Paris V.

Here are some ideas for Master's Dissertation Topics.

1. Income Comparisons, the Easterlin Paradox and Public Policy: Presentation1, Presentation2, Document1, Document2.
2. Self-Employment: Presentation1, Document1.
3. Subjective Well-Being in the Labour Market: Wages, Compensating Differentials and Rents; and Unemployment Benefits. Presentation1, Presentation2, Document1, Document2.
4. Job Quality and Worker Effort:  Presentation1, Presentation2, Document1, Document2.
5. Employment, Unions and Politicians: Presentation1, Presentation2, Document1.
6. Gender and labour market outcomes: Presentation1, Document1.

1. Measurement: Presentation
2. Validity: Presentation
3. Reading list for the above two presentations.
   

Editorial

*    Journal of Happiness Studies (2000-)
*    Revue d’Economie Politique (2004-)
*    Advances in Research on Quality of Life (2005-) 
*    British Journal of Industrial Relations (2010-)
*    Review of Income and Wealth (2010-)
*    Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy (2011-)
*    International Review of Economics (2011-)
*    Italian Economic Review/ Rivista Italiana Degli Economisti (2011-)
*    Evidence-based HRM (2011-)
*    International Journal of Happiness and Development (2011-)
*    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2008-2011)




Refereeing: Journals. 610+ Referee's Reports for:

Actualité Economique	Journal of European Social Policy
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics	Journal of Family and Economic Issues
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy	Journal of Happiness Studies
American Economic Journal: Macro	Journal of Health Economics
American Economic Review	Journal of Human Development
American Journal of Agricultural Economics	Journal of Human Resources
American Journal of Political Science	Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
Annales d'Economie et de Statistique	Journal of Labor Economics
Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy	Journal of Labor Research
Applied Economics Quarterly	Journal of Law, Economics and Organization
Applied Research in Quality of Life	Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics
BMC Public Health	Journal of Official Statistics
British Journal of Industrial Relations	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Bulletin of Economic Research	Journal of Political Economy
Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences	Journal of Population Economics
Canadian Journal of Economics	Journal of Positive Psychology
Contemporary Economic Policy	Journal of Public Economics
Demography	Journal of Research in Personality
Eastern Economic Journal	Journal of Socio-Economics
Econometrica	Journal of Sports Economics
Economic Inquiry	Journal of the European Economic Association
Economic Journal	Journal of the Japanese and International Economies
Economic Modelling	Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A
Economic Systems	Labour
Economic and Industrial Democracy	Labour Economics
Economic and Social Review	Management Science
Economica	Mind and Society
Economics and Human Biology	OECD Journal: Economic Studies
Economics and Philosophy	Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
Economics Letters	Oxford Economic Papers
Economics of Education Review	Oxford Review of Economic Policy
Economics of Transition	Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
Economie et Prévision	Papers in Regional Science
Economie et Statistique	Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Empirica	Perspectives on Psychological Science
Empirical Economics	PLOS ONE
Environment and Planning A	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
European Economic Review	Psychological Bulletin
European Sociological Review	Psychological Science
European Journal of Operational Research	Public Finance Review
European Journal of Political Economy	Quarterly Journal of Economics
Evolution & Human Behavior	Recherches Economiques de Louvain
Feminist Economics	Regional Science and Urban Economics
Frontiers in Finance and Economics	Reinvention: a Journal of Undergraduate Research
Games and Economic Behavior	Research on Aging
Gender, Work and Organization	Review of Economic Studies
Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography	Review of Economics and Statistics
Health Economics	Review of Economics of the Household
Health Policy	Review of Income and Wealth
History of the Human Sciences	Review of Industrial Organization
Human Relations	Revue d'Economie Politique
Human Resource Management Journal	Revue Economique
Industrial and Labor Relations Review	Ricerche Economiche
Industrial Relations	Rivista Italiana degli Economisti
Industrial Relations Journal	Scandinavian Journal of Economics
International Economic Review	Schmollers Jahrbuch
International Journal of Business and Economics	Science
International Journal of Management and Decision Making	Scottish Journal of Political Economy
International Journal of Manpower	Social Choice and Welfare
International Migration Review	Social Forces
International Review of Economics	Social Indicators Research
International Sociology	Social Science and Medicine
International Tax and Public Finance	Social Science Information
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion	Social Science Journal
Journal of Applied Econometrics	Social Science Quarterly
Journal of Applied Economics	Sociological Methods and Research
Journal of Applied Gerontology	Socio-Economic Review
Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis	Southern Economic Journal
Journal of Comparative Economics	Statistics in Transition new series
Journal of Development Economics	The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization	The Manchester School
Journal of Economic Inequality	World Bank Economic Review
Journal of Economic Literature	World Development
Journal of Economic Psychology
Journal of Economic Surveys





Refereeing: Books (11)


*    Editions Flammarion
*    MIT Press
*    Oxford University Press
*    Princeton University Press
*    World Bank



Refereeing: Projects (26)


*    ANR (France)
*    Austrian Science Fund
*    AXA (France)
*    British Academy (UK)
*    ECOS-Sud (France)
*    ESRC (UK)
*    FCAR (Canada)
*    FCI (Canada)
*    INCA (France)
*    Israel Science Foundation
*    Leverhulme Trust (UK)
*    Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR)
*    MIUR (Italy)
*    NWO (Holland)
*    Nuffield Foundation (UK)
*    SSHRC (Canada)

How did I get here?

Some Links

Many many interesting things about fairness and well-being research can be found in the following places

• ISQOLS website
• OZqols website
• Ruut Veenhoven's website
• Ed Diener's website.
• Andrew Oswald's website
• Ernst Fehr's website
• Alois Stutzer's website
  
• The New Economics Foundation.

Don't forget the Labour Economics Gateway here.



Equally interesting things about football can be found in the following places

• Football results and gossip from the first five divisions in England can be found at soccernet.
• Are Leyton Orient the worst team in London? This site will let you know.
• Are you sad enough to want to know the results from League Division Eight? See here then.
• US Palaiseau! Easily the best team in, er, Palaiseau.
  

And we all know that you can never listen to enough music while you're working.

• Who Said Hip-Hop was Dead? Quannum and Solesides refute the case.
• And check out Deep Puddle Dynamics for some serious What The Hell moments.
  
• Who Said Finns Can't Rap? Oh look, here's another one. And what's more....broken beats, sub-bass and grainy video: Antiall have it all. I used to have a link to them, but it has disappeared into the Ether....
• Wobbly Ambient Electronica is cool. Boards of Canada's turntable is playing at the wrong speed.
• Who Said a Triple Lead Guitar Attack was Passé? Run for the hills (of Arkansas), where Black Oak Arkansas will show you what you've been missing (nice washboard too).
• Uspenski Cathedral in Helsinki has a pretty good choir. Check out the bass.
• How minimal can you get? Richie Hawtin knows.
• I can't remember the way you used to be: the Charlatans (UK). 
• Doors......lead to other doors. The Associates. 
• This Ain't Really Life; It's Nothing But A Movie. Gil Scott-Heron.
• With a movie camera - The Cinematic Orchestra.
• My office hasn't been the same since I discovered Etherbeat radio: "The Urban Alternative"
• And more radio than you can throw a stick at: Iceberg Radio.
  
• Any label which signed Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band is OK with me: Ze Records.
• Bass for your Face: Public Enemy.
• Groove Salad: "Listener-supported, commercial-free, underground/alternative radio broadcasting from San Francisco". That's what it says on their website.
• Damon and Naomi. Listen to Beautiful Close Double....and weep.
• Finger Licking Good Y'All. Time to remember how good Trouble Funk were.
• I reckon Burial is ice-washed deep-space soul. But then again what the hell do I know?
• This is the best ever old-school song; unfortunately so is this. No, wait a minute: this is surely even better...
  
• I like Fools' Gold as much as the next man, but here's another total gem from the Stone Roses.
• Lemmy gives his opinion on certain journal referees. Actually it's Larry Wallis, ex-Pink Fairies, on vocals.
  
• Ah, preposterous: the magnificent I, Ludicrous.
• And what did Tiim Gaine sound like before Stereolab, you ask? Actually like this Indie Wah-Wah classic. I seem to remember that McCarthy came from Barking, where I lived when I wrote my thesis. Or was that the Wolfhounds? Or the Godfathers?
• And all of this is just imagination: Shriekback.
  
• Being a moderately poor guitar player myself, I am partial to wig-outs. Here are two mighty fine ones, both old and new.
• Never liked KJ that much, but this is monstrous.
• Two minutes of horn-driven madness: The Ohio Players back in the days...
• And the Fear: What's that for?
• Alex Harvey helped to make me what I am today. It's his fault.
• Super Collider will melt your speakers: it's official.
• You Ain't Got the Bait to Hook This. Bahamadia.
• Dansez Dansez Yeah: San Fan Thomas.
• Dad on the Dance Floor alert. We are all Wicki Wacky
  

Dubious Links between Research and Music Department.

• The 2001 Economica paper includes lyrics from the great Eubie Blake.
• The 2008 International Journal of Manpower paper is named after a Billy Bragg song.
• The 2008 Economic Journal paper includes a line from Gimme a Bullet.
• The 2013 OUP chapter contains a carefully-shoehorned lyric from Wham Rap.
  
• One of our religion papers was inspired by the monumental Black Oak Arkansas ("Our Religion Is Music")
• Our new work on Adaptation in the East will, I hope, include a line from Billy Bragg's St Swithin's Day.
• The short summary paper in Keio Economic Studies is named after a Rush song (I know, I know).
  
• I would like to write a paper on the absence of compensating differentials called "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap". But I probably won't.
  

Identify the Lyrics Department. Know which songs these come from? Then you may win a great prize*

• "Here I am, growing up and growing old. Watching my friends swallow cultures whole"
• "How do you come to be having fun with everyone but me girl?"
• "Alabama would be heaven if the Lord was there"
• "Jobs for the boys, and a tip for the wrecking crew. Truth of it is that it's plain you've not got a clue"
• "Your words twist and decay, nothing you say reaches my ears anyway"
  
• "These are Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children"
• "If it doesn't work out, Yo: it just doesn't. If it wasn't meant to be, you know: It just wasn't"
• "I only played chess once in my life, and I lost"
• "I couldn't go to work today as Bigfoot stole my car"
• "You and I we need each other just the same. You need me to laugh at and I need you to blame"
  

* You probably won't win anything at all.



Activités Annexes : Kingston University (5-25K Euros) ; LSE (25K+ Euros).