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Time preference, economic crisis and social decline

Richard Wellings

24 June 2009

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The last decade has been marked by a combination of low savings rates and high debt levels in both the USA and Britain. Indeed in 2005, the savings rate in the US reached zero, while 13 million...

Will Brown implement Peacock?

Philip Booth

17 June 2009

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No doubt IEA blog readers will have different views on the news that the BBC is likely to have to share its licence fee with ITV news and children’s programme producers (with expressions of...

The arts – a welfare state in reverse

Terry Arthur

28 May 2009

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In the past few weeks UK politics has rightly been dominated by The Telegraph’s revelations about MPs’ expense claims. Meanwhile other issues have taken a back seat – for example...

Thinking about drinking

J. R. Shackleton

17 March 2009

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Sir Liam Donaldson’s proposal for a minimum price per unit of alcohol is a novel addition to the long list of interventions in markets in the name of some alleged higher good. As is often the...

Bankers’ pay

J. R. Shackleton

3 March 2009

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There is at the moment a hugely irrational anti-banker mood in this country. Every day I see angry letters in the papers and angry blogs calling for all sorts of dire penalties for bankers and...

Puzzle solved?

John Blundell

1 January 2009

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An update to An economic Christmas-present puzzle: buying books on Amazon: After my three letters to Amazon (going back two months now) were ignored, the IEA blog seems to have done the trick as...

An economic Christmas-present puzzle: buying books on Amazon

John Blundell

25 December 2008

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I recently wrote a book explaining Thatcherism to America. It is available in paperback, published in New York City in October 2008 by Algora as Margaret Thatcher: A Portrait of the Iron Lady. It...

Pope Pius IX and the errors of socialism

Philip Booth

8 December 2008

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Pope Pius IX had everything modern in his sights when he wrote the Syllabus of Errors and related encyclicals. It was not just socialism that came in for a pasting and I am sure he would have been...

The global financial crisis is not an argument for statism

Philip Vander Elst

6 October 2008

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When I originally set out to write my newly published IEA paper, Power Against People: A Christian Critique of the State, I was conscious of the fact that despite the success of Margaret...

Short selling, imprudence and the Archbishop of York

Philip Booth

2 October 2008

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Christians have a duty to be properly informed when they speak out. Catholics specifically call the sin of blundering into the unknown “imprudence”. Surely the...

Shepherds of the flock produce woolly thinking

Philip Booth

25 September 2008

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It is always disappointing when Bishops follow the mob rather than trying to lead their flock. The Archbishop of York joined in the name calling yesterday. Today, in the Spectator, the...

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