Financial Regulation: The Need for a Revolution (Vol. 32.3)
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Main articles
Editorial Statement – a new beginning for Economic Affairs (pages 4–5) by Philip Booth and J. R. Shackleton
How is Banking Regulation Changing, and How Could it be Better? (pages 6–10) by Andrew Lilico
Too Big to Fail: UK Financial Services Reform in History and Policy (pages 11–16) by Ranald Michie
A Well-Intentioned Folly: The Macroeconomic Implications of Solvency II (pages 17–23) by Amarendra Swarup
Promoting a free market by ending the Single Market – reforming EU financial regulation (pages 24–31) by Philip Booth and Alan Morrison
The EU Proposals for The Regulation of Alternative Investments (pages 32–36) by Laurence Copeland
The Alternative of Private Regulation: The London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market as a Model (pages 37–43) by Edward Peter Stringham and Ivan Chen
The Problems of Accounting Standards (pages 44–49) by D. R. Myddelton
Regulation without Reason: The Deleterious Effects of Government Regulation on Private Pension Provision (pages 50–57) by Nick Silver and Saurabh Pant
Can Banks Self-Regulate? Voluntary Agreements, Intrinsic Motivation and Games (pages 58–64) by Aidan Walsh, Piotr Magnuszewski and Anna Slodka-Turner
Other articles
Causes and Cures of the Great Recession (pages 65–69) by Steven Horwitz
Planning Reform and Housing Costs: Why The Coalition Failed and What it Means (pages 70–77) by Kristian Niemietz
How Governments Should Support the Adjustment of Competitiveness in the Euro Area – and How They Should Not (pages 78–84) by Holger Zemanek
Liberating Farming from the CAP (pages 85–93) by Séan Rickard
Economic viewpoints
On One Forgotten Cause of the Arab Spring: the Lack of Economic Freedom (pages 94–96) by Emmanuel Martin
Us Debt and Deficits: Time to Reverse the Trend (pages 97–101) by James R. Barth and Tong Li
Rethinking Inflation: New Perspective from an Old Indicator (pages 102–106) by Mark Ungewitter
Private Equity and Agency Costs: an Economic Analysis (pages 107–109) by Adam Baldwin
Columns
Who Invented ‘QE’? (page 110) by Tim Congdon
Economic Freedom and the Asian Century (page 111) by Razeen Sally
Questioning the Anti-Profit Mentality in Education (page 112) by James Stanfield
The Deadly World of Falsified and Sub-Standard Medicine (page 113) by Roger Bate
From Big Macs to Big Brother? What is the culture of the market? (page 114) by John Meadowcroft
Book reviews
Student and Teacher Supplement