Better Regulation Without the State (Volume 26.2)
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Main articles on the future direction of local government, edited by John Meadowcroft
Main articles on pharamaceutcal and healthcare policy and consumer choice
Main articles on Better Regulation Without the State, guest edited by Keith Boyfield. The sample article is on the unintended consequences of the Pensions Act 2004
In this issue of Economic Affairs the main articles focus on achieving better regulation without the state. The articles will ask whether market institutions themselves are more effective at regulating commercial activity than the state. A particular focus will be the role of the state and the market in financial regulation. The issue also includes articles on nuclear power, economic sanctions and Europe and China.
Contents
Main Articles
Better Regulation Without the State by Keith Boyfield
Pyrrhic victory? The unintended consequences of the Pensions Act 2004 by Alistair Byrne, Debbie Harrison, Bill Rhodes and David Blake
The limits of regulatory reform in the EU by Frank Vibert
Financial regulation, the state and the market: is the Financial Services Authority an unnecessary evil? by Terry Arthur and Philip Booth
Advertising regulation and co-regulation by Andrew Brown
Regulation in an untrusting world by Stephen Sklaroff
Other Articles
Europe and China: The Fatal Conceit by Andrew Neil
Europe, China and the Fatal Conceit: a comment on Andrew Neil by Philip Booth
China’s constructivist rationalist: a comment on Andrew Neil by Ross Walker
Deus Caritas Est: the social message of Pope Benedict XVI by Samuel Gregg
Destroying a country in order to save it: the folly of economic sanctions against Myanmar by Charles A Rarick
Economic Viewpoints
Can a new nuclear programme be justified? by Colin Robinson and Eileen Marshall
Taxi deregulation and transaction costs by Christian Seibert
Tributes to Arthur Seldon by Ralph Harris, Stuart Waterhouse, Martin Anderson and Geoffrey Howe
Columns
New Labour’s bleak productivity legacy by Tim Congdon
Foreign aid revisited by Razeen Sally
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) on education by James Stanfield
The real costs of Aids in Sierra Leone by Roger Bate
Would Britain have developed with aid? by John Meadowcroft
Book Reviews