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Philip Booth

27 August 2009

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This little gem recently came to my attention: The Pythagorean Theorem has 24 words. The ten commandments (English version) contain 138 words. US regulations about cabbages...

The EU and hedge funds: silencing the dog that didn’t bark

Laurence Copeland

12 June 2009

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We could see it coming, couldn’t we? Those gigantic over-leveraged hedge funds were bound to come crashing down, as their massive bets turned sour, forcing them to default on their bank loans...

Incredible India?

Razeen Sally

22 May 2009

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It is widely believed that India is forging a separate successful path to development, in contrast to the traditional comparative-advantage based development of China and the other east-Asian Tigers...

Government failure caused the financial crisis

authors of Verdict on the Crash

12 May 2009

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In a statement published today in the Daily Telegraph and reproduced below, fourteen leading economists – authors of the comprehensive new IEA study, Verdict on the Crash - explain...

Hayek on Facebook

Dominique Lazanski

28 March 2009

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The government has just announced plans to monitor social networking sites, in the name of “anti-terrorism”. Officials claim that they will not be monitoring or recording the content of...

Time to suspend the minimum wage

Philip Booth

20 February 2009

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This is not the first time this subject has been covered on the IEA blog – but the point needs repeating. We should remove all impediments to employment in a recession and this should include...

What does Osborne mean?

Philip Booth

4 February 2009

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On Monday, George Osborne made an interesting speech. It would have been a good opening statement at a dinner party of economists. There was a lot to chew on but the ideas were ill defined. But they...

Madoff and the regulation of financial markets

Richard Wellings

18 December 2008

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The Madoff scandal is yet more bad news for the financial sector. Several major banks may have lost hundreds of millions of dollars in the alleged scam. An important question is whether this would...

Housing, poverty and the planning system

Kristian Niemietz

3 December 2008

20 comments

Twenty-nine per cent of English homes are not ‘decent’ places to live, according to the latest edition of the English House Condition Survey. They fail to meet the ‘decent homes...

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