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How Keynesian policies would not have worked then, and why they will not work now

Executive Summary As calls for Plan B mount, it is increasingly being suggested that the UK is making the same … Continue reading “No Case for Plan B – Lessons for the Great Recession from the Great Depression (web publication)”
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Why neo-mercantilism is on the rise and why the principles of free trade must be defended

Subscribe to Economic Affairs Contents Main Articles The Political Economy of Protectionism by Stephen Davies (editorial) Do subsidies justify retaliatory protectionism? … Continue reading “The Political Economy of Protectionism (Volume 31.3)”
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The latest edition of this annual report, published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs

Executive Summary The index published in Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which the policies and institutions … Continue reading “Economic Freedom of the World 2011 Annual Report”