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Norman Barry (1944-2008)
Martin Ricketts
10 November 2008
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The recent death of Norman Barry is a great loss to the cause of classical liberalism. For Norman was one of its most effective advocates. He was a rare example of a person who was a master of the...
The Bank of England shouldn’t try to stave off recession
Philip Booth
6 November 2008
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The 1.5% interest rate cut came as a bit of a surprise to most people. However, we are in new territory and it is territory with which those economists who love their macroeconomic forecasting...
Nineteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, socialism is thriving in East Germany
Kristian Niemietz
6 November 2008
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This Sunday will be the 19th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall – one of the greatest victories for freedom in contemporary history, and a powerful reminder that huge advances in...
A Keynesian spending spree won’t lead the economy out of recession
Richard Wellings
24 October 2008
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Alistair Darling’s proposed spending spree on bringing forward major capital projects suggests the government is prepared to sacrifice the economy’s long-term interests for short-term...
Book review: The Politics of the Thatcher Revolution by Geoffrey K. Fry
John Blundell
22 October 2008
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This is the best non-partisan short book on “Thatcherism” and the 1979-1990 era to have appeared to date. It is wide ranging, all encompassing, massively referenced with a great Bibliography and...
The government should ditch Crossrail to help balance the books
Richard Wellings
9 October 2008
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The British government unwisely entered the current slowdown with a sizeable budget deficit. Recent bank bailouts are likely to push the national accounts further into the red and increased...
Taxation is a black hole
Terry Arthur
2 October 2008
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David Cameron and George Osborne may be shifting on “sharing the proceeds of growth” but they can’t bring themselves to “come out” for wholesale tax reduction. Yet my...
Statism dominates in the homeland of Hayek and Mises
Kristian Niemietz
1 October 2008
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In the introduction to The Revolution – A Manifesto, the Republican enfant terrible Ron Paul describes the limited set of choices presented to US voters in most elections: more public spending...
Sudha R. Shenoy 1943-2008, remembered fondly
John Blundell
19 September 2008
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I once heard Sudha Shenoy described as the original pin-up model of the “Austrian” school of thought in economics. Whatever the merits of that description, she was certainly a...
Outsourcing public services: a good deal for taxpayers?
Terry Arthur
16 September 2008
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Dr DeAnne Julius’s recent review of the UK Public Services Industry (PSI) tells us that the outsourcing of government services is an industry which has grown to £80 billion of annual...
The Labour Party and Arthur Seldon’s predictions
John Meadowcroft
9 September 2008
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In a letter to The Times on 8 August 1980, the IEA’s founder Editorial Director Arthur Seldon made the following three predictions: The Soviet Union will not survive the century China will go...
The economics of windfall taxes
Richard Wellings
9 September 2008
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The imposition of a windfall tax on energy companies is supported by a majority of the public and many politicians. Revenues would be used to support low-income households struggling to pay gas and...

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