They meant well

How is it that so many major, government-sponsored projects can lose so much money? This book answers this question. Offering an account of the history of six major government project failures, it shows that failure results from mismanagement, lack of clear lines of responsibility and lack of acc...

Malaria and the ddt story

Malaria kills millions of people each year and hundreds of millions more suffer chronic illness. Economic development is inhibited and poverty is perpetuated. This work argues that action against malaria is over-centralised and narrowly focused, ignoring local conditions and concerns.

The profit motive in education: continuing the revolution

The UK government in common with the governments of many Western countries is in the midst of implementing policies to reform education. However, the government has, as a matter of principle, decided that profit-making schools cannot provide state-funded education even if they would lead to subst...

China, trade and power: why the west’s economic engagement has failed

From a Western point of view, the policy of economic engagement with China has failed.

The future of the commons

This short book provides a brief introduction to the work of the late Elinor Ostrom, 2009 Nobel Laureate in economics. Her work is of vital importance in understanding how we can manage difficult environmental problems without top-down government regulation. As Professor Ostrom suggests, examples...

Europe's social integration

Published in association with the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), this book examines the four factors that challenge the fate of the European social model: globalization, monetary union, Eastern enlargement and digitalization. As a former EU Commissioner for Social Affairs, th...

Power cut?

The EU has also only been partially successful in promoting liberalisation and competition in electricity markets and the time is ripe for change. The author shows how the EU must learn the lessons from the UK's successful recent past - and the UK must re-learn them.

The itinerant economist

A fly on the wall, warts and all, description of what it was like to be a market economist during the extraordinary 25-year period that finance came to exert a disproportionate influence on the lives of almost everyone on the planet. It was quite a ride and not without its moments of pathos and h...

Guide to the criminal prisons of nineteenth-century england

The penal system in nineteenth-century England was incredibly complicated.

In from the cold

This book brings together some of the world's most successful Russia-dedicated portfolio managers, economists and market participants to share their personal experiences in this dynamic market. Many of the contributors have been active in Russia since the very inception of the market and each is ...

The future of finance

"The Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality"--Back cover.

Reinventing london

The financial sector has provided London with an extraordinary impetus for growth over a generation - but what will follow it? The regeneration of Kings Cross and the Olympic boroughs show what the next stage of London's growth will look like, with an economy driven by accountants and geeks, not ...

Dilemma of democracy pb pb

States that governments have been taking control of activities - 'public' goods, 'public' utilities, welfare and local government services - which would have been better left to the private sector. This book argues that attempts to correct market 'imperfections' have created over-government.

The legal foundations of free markets

In this book, Stephen Copp has brought together some of the world's leading figures in the field of law and economics to discuss questions that are central to our understanding of how a free-market economy operates. Though most people accept that a free economy cannot exist in a legal vacuum, imp...

Central bank independence

Surviving and thriving in the age of ai

The world is experiencing a rapid rise in the use of artificial intelligence, sparking fierce debate about its impact on both business and society. This book cuts through the noise and acts as a guide on how to survive and thrive in the age of AI. By providing an accessible collection of short, p...

Privatisation, competition and regulation

Rethinking drug courts: international experiences of a us policy export

What are drug courts? Do they work? Why are they so popular? Should countries be expanding them or rolling them back? These are some of the questions this volume attempts to answer.

Universal healthcare without the nhs

The book draws on a wealth of international evidence to develop a vision for a new and better universal healthcare system for the UK based on consumer sovereignty, freedom of choice, competition and pluralism.

Islamic foundations of a free society

The authors writing here demonstrate that Islam is not only compatible with liberalism, but is inherently liberal.This book provides ammunition to those who wish to battle the claim that Islam and freedom are incompatible.

Prohibitions

This collection of essays examines those areas where the freedom of individual men and women to voluntarily engage in mutually advantageous exchanges is prohibited or restricted by government. The authors critically examine the economic and philosophical rationale for the prohibition of alcohol, ...

The fac-1 framework alliance contract: a handbook

This handbook explores the FAC-1 Framework Alliance Contract as a multi-party umbrella that connects the team members engaged on any project or programme of work. FAC-1 has been adopted on procurements worth over £100 billion, and this handbook explains what is different about FAC-1, how it is us...

Brexit 2015

During 2013-14, the IEA ran a competition ('BREXIT') to find the best blueprint for Britain outside the EU, with the objective of securing a free and prosperous economy should it choose to leave. This book brings together Iain Mansfield's winning submission with edited versions of three other con...

Cutting the costs of crime

The legal team of the future: law+ skills

The legal profession needs more than law. Whether you are a student, a law school, a university, a law firm or an in-house legal team, The Legal Team of the Future is the definitive guide to understanding and building the holistic skills required of those working in legal services now and in the ...

Should britain join the euro?

European economic and monetary union is driven by politics. This work argues that the economic costs and benefits of Britain's membership can and should be assessed. This is an analysis of the cases for and against Britain adopting the Euro. It concludes that EMU, as it is constituted and planned...

Fifty economic fallacies exposed (revised)

Whilst it is impossible to argue that the earth is flat without fearing ridicule, fallacies in economics are widespread. Such fallacies pervade the intellectual sphere and even influence policy. Professor Geoffrey Wood of the University of Buckingham exposes such popular economic fallacies in thi...

Ralph harris in his own words

When Lord Harris of High Cross (Ralph Harris) died, in October 2006 at the age of 81, the tributes to him described him as one of the 'men who changed Britain'. This book selects from Ralph's considerable opus, revealing that economics need not always be a 'dismal science'. It is suitable for aca...

Redefining the poverty debate

The political debate about poverty is entirely dominated by groups calling for more income transfers to the poor. However, now that the scope of our welfare state has reached - or even surpassed - Scandinavian levels, surely this approach has run its course. Award-winning author Kristian Niemietz...

An introduction to schools of economic thought

This guide for lay readers covers the main schools of economic thought in world history. Eamonn Butler provides a clear, jargon-free introduction to the ideas, debates and people that have had an impact, for better and worse, on human prosperity and welfare. From Aristotle to Adam Smith and Karl ...

How woke won

Woke has conquered the West. Identity politics, cancel culture and trans ideology reign. The values of ‘inclusivity’ and ‘diversity’ dominate politics, academia, the media, big business and the very language we speak. Censorship and public shaming are the price you pay for dissent. Woke has won –...

Europe

Taxes, benefits and family life

CONTENTS: The Problem Revisited; How the Traps are Baited: 1994 Compared with 1979 & 1982; Scale of the Problem & Priority for Change; Causes of the Problem; There is an Alternative; Summary & Conclusions.

Beyond universities

The challenge of immigration - a radical solution

How can market-based solutions help solve the challenges of immigration? Nobel Prize winner Prof. Gary Becker, in this IEA Occasional Paper, proposes a radical policy which, if implemented by the coalition government, could raise over �600 million a year. Prof. Becker proposes that visas to work ...

Waging the war of ideas

Discussing how 'wars of ideas' can be waged, this work features essays, reviews and introductions that show how the founders of the IEA successfully fought the conventional 'planning' wisdom of the 1960s and 1970s, providing the ideas which, by the 1980s and 1990s, had brought about increased fre...

Resilience of services

Failures of digital systems cause service outages and data breaches that have major negative effects both on the economy and on society, internationally. The number and scale of these issues continues to grow. This book brings together data and thinking from more than 200 experts to provide both ...

New europe's old regions

Examines the policies that should be used to address the poor economic performance of New Europe's old industrial and agricultural regions. This title intends to show that, if new-style regional policies are introduced without policies aimed at liberalisation, lower taxes and reduced employment p...

Education without the state

Functional illiteracy, youth delinquency and lack of technological innovation all point to the failures of state schooling. This book proposes lowering the school leaving age to 14, and giving young people two years' state funding for them to use in a Lifelong Individual Fund for Education (LIFE)...

A new global deal

Pandemics, climate disasters, financial crises, food insecurity, poverty, digital transformation and wars are just a few of the complex global challenges that societies must face up to. And yet the world governance systems that are currently in place are not capable of dealing with such challenge...

Financial stability without central banks

" This publication is based on research that forms part of the Paragon Initiative." -- page facing title page.

Lectures on regulatory and competition policy

Offers positive proposals for extending the reach of competitive markets and refutes some major economic fallacies. This volume contains twelve lectures in - competition policy and the form it should take; the proper place of regulation in competitive and monopolised markets; and the content of e...

The post-growth project

This book challenges the assumption that it is bad news when the economy doesn't grow.For decades, it has been widely recognised that there are ecological limits to continuing economic growth and that different ways of living, working and organising our economies are urgently required. This urgen...

The railways, the market and the government

The debate on rail privatisation often seems to focus on very narrow issues. Examining the history of government intervention in the railways and the privatisation process, this monograph discusses the future of railway policy. It is interested for those with an interest in railway policy and the...