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An unhealthy nudge

Patrick Basham

9 December 2010

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Notwithstanding David Cameron’s infatuation with nudging, the in-vogue tool would appear to have little merit as a guiding principle of policymaking. The Department of Health’s new...

Price-fixing is the wrong way to tackle binge drinking

Lucy McDonald

13 August 2010

5 comments

Plans to introduce a minimum price of 50p per unit of alcohol in the North-West of England – apparently supported by David Cameron – are deeply misguided. In all markets price-fixing is...

Don’t lecture the drinkers, just make them responsible

Mark Littlewood

6 July 2010

7 comments

Alcohol consumption is now a major problem in British society. Drunken teenagers are running rampant in our town centres. Accident and emergency wards are chock-a-block with people who have fallen...

Thinking about drinking

J. R. Shackleton

17 March 2009

10 comments

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...

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