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Living Down the Past: How Europe Can Help Africa Grow

1 January 1998

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Living Down the Past: How Europe Can Help Africa Grow

Paul Collier

1 January 1998

Professor Paul Collier argues that the prospects for growth and stability in Africa would be enhance if the concern about … Continue reading

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Ethics and the Arms Trade

Philip Towle

1 January 1998

The British defence industry is facing greater problems and a more uncertain future than at any time since the 1920s. … Continue reading

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Economic Freedom of the World: 1998/9 Interim Report

1 January 1998

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Economic Freedom of the World: 1998/9 Interim Report

James Gwartney and Robert Lawson

1 January 1998

This volume builds on the findings of Economic Freedom of the World: 1975-1995 and Economic Freedom of the World: 1997 … Continue reading

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Does the Past have a Future? The Political Economy of Heritage

1 January 1998

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Does the Past have a Future? The Political Economy of Heritage

Sir Alan Peacock

1 January 1998

Many countries are proud of their ‘heritage,’ in terms of buildings various artefacts from the past. In some cases, a … Continue reading

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Chaos, Management and Economics

1 January 1998

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Chaos, Management and Economics

David Parker and Ralph Stacey

1 January 1998

The best selling IEA title of the 1990s, it applies chaos theory to the social sciences

First published in 1994, this title was the best selling IEA publication of the 1990s. It applies the ideas of … Continue reading

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Climate Change: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom

1 December 1997

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Climate Change: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom

Julian Morris

1 December 1997

Contributions from Robert Balling, Roger Bate, Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, Deepak Lal and Thomas Gale Moore.

Executive Summary The world’s climate is in constant flux: on time-scales from days to millennia, global and regional temperature, wind … Continue reading

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Towards Self-Governing Schools

19 November 1997

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Towards Self-Governing Schools

Dick Atkinson

19 November 1997

In this challenging paper Dr Dick Atkinson asks why local education authorities are needed. Finding reasons lacking, he puts forward a proposal for all schools to be self-governing and thereby removed from the debilitating effects of politicised education.

Executive Summary Is local government involvement in education part of the problem, rather than a solution to falling standards, lack … Continue reading

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