Science and Guesswork in Financial Market Forecasting. The author discusses how research in financial markets has evolved and whether the … Continue reading “Predicting the Unpredictable?”

A Historical Survey… 1870-1990 In this historical survey spanning 120 years, the authors attempt to find out if there is … Continue reading “Have the Banks Failed British Industry?”

Choice, Contract, Consent, in restating liberalism, finds its rock-bottom foundations in six first principles that are either self-evident, or readily … Continue reading “Choice, Contract, Consent: A Restatement of Liberalism”

The authors examine the history of EU labour market regulation, review studies of the impact of such regulation and conclude … Continue reading “Regulating European Labour Markets: More Costs than Benefits?”

Traditionally, governments have relied on ‘command-and-control’ methods of pollution regulation – fixing standards, and relying on inspectorates and the backing … Continue reading “Pricing for Pollution”

Kevin Dowd explains how central banking and the monopoly issue of currency by government have politicised and greatly destabilised the … Continue reading “Private Money: The Path to Monetary Stability”

The British Town and Country planning system was originally designed to guide rather than restrict development. It has grown into … Continue reading “No Room! No Room! The Costs of the British Town and Country Planning System”

In this reprint of his January 1998 lecture to the IEA, Mr Portillo directly addresses the political issues raised by … Continue reading “Democratic Values and the Currency”

Rigorous postgraduate and post-experience business education has a major contribution to make to the creation of wealth. However, the UK’s … Continue reading “Whose Business? A Radical Proposal to Privatise British Business Schools”