Universal healthcare without the nhs

A u-turn on the road to serfdom

Top dogs and fat cats

Top pay has risen much faster than average pay in the past 20 years.

And the pursuit of happniness

With commentaries by Samuel Brittan and Melanie Powell. In "Happiness, Economics and Public Policy," Helen Johns and Paul Ormerod analyse the economic research that underlies politicians growing preoccupation with measures of 'well-being'. In a lucid and compelling analysis, written for economist...

Reinventing london

Top dogs and fat cats

Circle back!

Circle Back! is a tongue-in-cheek A–Z guide to the weird and often perplexing world of corporate jargon.

Financial stability without central banks

Bad habits, hard choices

The book proposes that negative VAT should be charged on healthy foods and high VAT should be charged on unhealthy foods. It sets out a four-step process to actually implement this new regime, each step of which depends on mechanisms that have already been used by government.

Why study history?

Considering studying history at university? Wondering whether a history degree will get you a good job, and what you might earn? Want to know what it's actually like to study history at degree level? This book tells you what you need to know.

A new understanding of poverty

This ground-breaking study on the measurement of poverty shows how policy in this field has taken a wrong turn with disastrous results. In recent years, poverty has generally been understood in 'relative' terms. That is, people are regarded as poor if they earn less than some benchmark relative t...

Are trams socialist?

If you have ever wondered why the roads are congested, the trains are full and the buses are no longer running, this book provides the answers. The UK has never had a proper transport policy and it desperately needs one to address the twin challengers of getting people around cheaply and safely, ...

The service organization

All organizations are becoming service organizations. But most weren’t built to deliver services successfully end-to-end, and the human, operational and financial impacts are abundantly clear. In the digital era the stakes are even higher, given how rapidly services change. Yet default working pr...

The rise of the reluctant innovator

Why study mathematics?

Considering studying mathematics at university? Wondering whether a mathematics degree will get you a good job, and what you might earn? Want to know what it's actually like to study mathematics at degree level? This book tells you what you need to know.

Wheels of fortune

Shows that large scale infrastructure projects can be made self-funding. This book suggests that infrastructure projects bring about a large increase in the value of adjoining land. It argues that a fairer and more efficient means to fund infrastructure projects is to capture and use the increase...

The counter-revolution in monetary theory

Forging europe's leadership

The world has been splintered by geopolitics and yet is still bound by inter­dependence. As competition between the world’s great powers surges, multiple trends point towards the collapse of the international order. Russia’s aggression against Ukraine marks a tipping point, potentially turning an...

Gaming trade

Trade is no longer just the ships, planes and lorries that move the goods we buy around the world or the services we consume either physically or digitally.

Selfishness, greed and capitalism

Regulating utilities

Taking the measure of poverty

CONTENTS: Introduction; Households Below Average Incomes: A Critique; How Incomes Should be Measured; Poor & Affluent Households in 1988; Conclusions on the Distribution of Income; Summary.

The circular economy and green jobs in the eu and beyond

The circular economy is a model of production and consumption that is underpinned by a transition to renewable energy and materials. It is a resilient system that is good for business, people and the environment. "The Circular Economy and Green Jobs in the EU and Beyond" examines what the circula...

Central banking in a free society

Shows how the Bank of England failed in its duties to provide Northern Rock with proper lender-of-last-resort facilities. This title covers the Northern Rock affair and the subsequent instability in the UK financial system in the context of the history and desired future role of the Bank of Engla...

Conservation and the countryside

Free markets under siege

Explains how there are substantial gains to be made from countries getting 'easy' policy decisions correct. This work explains how liberal economists, politicians and civil servants often spend much time discussing 'difficult' cases. It uses evidence and analysis derived from the disciplines of b...

Verdict on the crash: causes and policy implications

This title features contributions from James Alexander, Michael Beenstock, Philip Booth, Eamonn Butler, Tim Congdon, Laurence Copeland, Kevin Dowd, John Greenwood, Samuel Gregg, John Kay, David Llewellyn, Alan Morrison, D. R Myddelton, Anna Schwartz and Geoffrey Wood. This book challenges the myt...

Myth of social cost

Government failure

Working to rule

This book combines a history of employment laws with analysis of the troublesome effects of various interventions. The author argues for a fundamental rethink. Some basic labour market regulation may still be necessary, but less than we currently have.

Before babylon, beyond bitcoin

Technology is changing money and this book looks at where it might be taking us.

The henry fords of healthcar

The end of macroeconomics

Travel fast or smart?

This book sets out the principles that could underpin a strategic policy for transport. Instead of focusing piecemeal on trying (and failing) to get from place to place ever faster, we need to think about how and where we want the economy to develop, and about how new the digital technologies can...

Digital bricks and mortar

The digital age has revolutionized nearly every aspect of our lives, from communication and commerce to entertainment and education. Yet, amid this transformative wave, one industry remains stubbornly entrenched in the past: the property market. Consumers are left to navigate a labyrinth of antiq...

The ice age

This is a book about the legacy of the Great Financial Crisis for the European Union which continues to struggle with a policy of austerity and the resulting low growth, high unemployment and strains on its welfare systems.

Waging the war of ideas 2015

This book discusses how 'wars of ideas' can be waged, using the author's extensive experience, both as Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) and at other classical liberal think tanks.

Money and asset prices in boom and bust

Considers events such as the Great Depression, episodes of boom and bust in the UK, and the malaise in Japan in the 1990s and the early 21st century. This title shows how monetary policy affects both financial markets and the real economy. It argues that fluctuations in money supply growth led to...

The global education industry

James Tooley challenged the wisdom that private education fosters social and economic inequality. On the contrary, he found that the private sector, as well as being innovative, often provides creative social responsibility programmes, subsidised places and student loan schemes. Here, he provides...