London Publishing: 73 books
by Ralph Harris, Arthur Seldon, Christopher Snowdon
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
This new version of ‘Advertising in a Free Society’ is valuable reminder of the fundamental role advertising plays in society. Although the criticisms aimed towards it, which Ralph Harris and Arthur Seldon aimed to dispel over half a century ago, continue to gain support, policy makers and campaigners...
Killjoys: A Critique of Paternalism
A Critique of Paternalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Eating sugary food, drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes are legal activities. But politicians still use the law to discourage them. They raise their price, prohibit or limit their advertisement, restrict where they can be sold and consumed, and sometimes ban them outright. These politicians thereby...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Ronald Coase is one of the most important economists of the twentieth century. Amongst other great achievements, Coase taught us why firms exist and how we can better understand how to solve environmental problems. He also made a profound contribution to our understanding of the provision of so-called...
The Post-Growth Project
How the End of Economic Growth Could Bring a Fairer and Happier Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
This book challenges the assumption that it is bad news when the economy doesn’t grow. For decades, it has been widely recognized that there are ecological limits to continuing economic growth and that different ways of living, working and organizing our economies are urgently required. This urgency...
by Mustafa Acar, Souad Adnane, Azhar Aslam
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Islam is growing rapidly both in its traditional homelands and in the West. Some in the West view Islam with a mixture of fear and suspicion. However, it is also fair to say that there is widespread ignorance about Islam, and especially about its relationship to political systems and the economy....
by Ralph Buckle, Tim Hewish, John C. Hulsman
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Discussions on the outcome of a potential referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU have been characterised by political grandstanding, at the expense of serious economic analysis. With Brexit now a real possibility in the next Parliament, the IEA today releases a report outlining four different...
Federal Britain: The Case for Decentralisation
The Case for Decentralisation
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The UK has the most centralised system of government amongst major economies. This results in poorer services, lower economic growth and higher taxes. We have also developed an approach to devolution that is incoherent and unstable. This short book proposes an entirely new set of constitutional arrangements....
Power Cut? How the EU Is Pulling the Plug on Electricity Markets
How the EU Is Pulling the Plug on Electricity Markets
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
By any measure, the privatisation and liberalisation of the UK energy industry was an enromous success. And yet the public are not convinced. As energy expert Carlo Stagnaro shows in this important book, the re-regulation of the market in the UK, together with policy developed at the EU level, has...
by Kristian Niemietz
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by real-world experience. Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society, from the Soviet Union to Maoist China to Venezuela. All of them have ended in varying degrees of failure. But, according...
Sea Change: How Markets and Property Rights Could Transform the Fishing Industry
How Markets and Property Rights Could Transform the Fishing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Government management of fisheries has been little short of disastrous. In many regions, valuable fish stocks have collapsed as a result of overfishing. Ill-conceived regulation also means that every year millions of tons of edible fish are thrown back dead into the sea. While an absence of established...
by Eamonn Butler
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This primer aims to provide a straightforward introduction to the principles, personalities and key developments in classical liberalism. It is designed for students and lay readers who may understand the general concepts of social, political and economic freedom, but who would like a systematic presentation of its essential elements.
Education, War and Peace: The Surprising Success of Private Schools in War-Torn Countries
The Surprising Success of Private Schools in War-Torn Countries
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
The authors of Education, War & Peace travelled to Liberia, Sierra Leone and South Sudan to conduct research on education in these conflict-affected countries. They uncovered an inspiring story of entrepreneurs stepping into the breach and providing low-cost private schooling to large numbers...
Working to Rule: The Damaging Economics of UK Employment Regulation
The Damaging Economics of UK Employment Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Employment regulation has been growing rapidly. This has not exclusively, or even mainly, come from the European Union. Recent UK governments have added such significant new measures as the National Living Wage, workplace pensions and the Apprenticeship Levy. The costs of such regulation are frequently...
Facing Up to Climate Reality: Honesty, Disaster and Hope
Honesty, Disaster and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
We are used to hearing that the climate crisis is serious, but still tractable if we start acting on it soon. The reality is different. Things are going to get much worse, for a long time, whatever we now do – though hardly anyone wants to admit it. This book from the Green House collective offers...