Federal britain

Misguided virtue

An introduction to entrepreneurship

Bastiat's 'the law'

Frederic Bastiat, who was born two hundred years ago, was a leader of the French laissez-faire tradition in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was influenced by Cobden's Anti-Corn Law League and became a convinced free trader. Joseph Schumpeter described Bastiat as 'the most brilliant e...

The minimum wage

CONTENTS: Introduction; Poverty Alleviation; Efficiency; Conclusions; Summary.

Why study mathematics?

Catholic social thought, the market and public policy

The last few decades have seen huge reductions in global poverty; improvements in education and healthcare; and, perhaps surprisingly to some, dramatic reductions in global inequality. We now seem to be entering a different era. Economic progress in richer countries seems to have stalled – not le...

An introduction to entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs play a pivotal role in boosting progress, productivity and prosperity. They drive economic growth and create new opportunities. Their innovations transform people's lives. Yet their enormous contribution is not widely understood - and is often completely overlooked in economics text...

Education, war and peace

Sea change

After decades of mismanagement under the Common Fisheries Policy, Brexit represents a major opportunity to adopt an economically rational approach that benefits the fishing industry, taxpayers and consumers.

Hayek's the constitution of liberty

F A Hayek's 'The Constitution of Liberty' has a profound effect on the thinking of a generation of scholars, students and even politicians. There is a sense in which it is regarded as a manifesto of traditional liberalism. But the book has a complex underlying argument, and the philosophy is ofte...

Why fight poverty?

School of thought

School choice around the world

Trade policy, new century

In recent years, debates on international trade policy have focused on the role of the World Trade Organization and the two big political and economic powers - the USA and the EU. In this book, the author, an expert in trade policy, argues that this focus must change. Large supra-national institu...

An introduction to taxation

Eamonn Butler provides a jargon-free guide to taxation, its history, its aims and purposes, and its impact on individuals and economies. He puts forward different ways of funding public services, whilst exploring the principles that would make for a much better – and much simpler – tax system.

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

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