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55 produkter
Way Out of the Pensions Quagmire
Av Philip Booth, Deborah Cooper
Inbunden, 2005
249 kr
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This book provides an analysis of the current problems of pension provision in the UK and a radical plan for reform. The authors believe that the system of retirement income provision in the UK is so mired in complexity that nothing less than wholesale change is necessary. The authors believe that …
Towards a Liberal Utopia?
Häftad, 2005
295 kr
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Socialists have never been shy of sketching out their dreams of a better world, but that better world has never materialised in socialist countries. Indeed, socialism has frequently achieved the precise opposite of what was intended by its architects. The first part of Towards a Liberal Utopia? …
Were 364 Economists All Wrong?
Av TBD, Philip Booth
Häftad, 2006
202 kr
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In March 1981, 364 economists agreed to write to "The Times" arguing strongly against the then government's monetary and fiscal policy. However, the Thatcher government decided to ignore these voices and continue the pursuit of policies to defeat inflation and restore fiscal responsibility. To the …
Does Britain Need a Financial Regulator?
Statutory Regulation, Private Regulation & Financial Markets
Häftad, 2010
249 kr
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It is difficult to imagine financial markets without a state regulator. But it was not so long ago that financial markets in Britain developed their own regulation, without government intervention. This monograph examines the economic case for a statutory regulator of investment transactions and …
Verdict on the Crash
Causes and Policy Implications
Av Philip Booth
Häftad, 2009
249 kr
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This title features contributions from James Alexander, Michael Beenstock, Philip Booth, Eamonn Butler, Tim Congdon, Laurence Copeland, Kevin Dowd, John Greenwood, Samuel Gregg, John Kay, David Llewellyn, Alan Morrison, D. R Myddelton, Anna Schwartz and Geoffrey Wood. This book challenges the myth …
... And the Pursuit of Happiness
Wellbeing & the Role of Government
Av Helen Johns, Paul Ormerod m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
249 kr
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In spite of general reductions in government spending, the prime minister has found room in the government's budget to spend money on a major survey of what makes the British people happy. This will be used, in the prime minister's own words, to guide government policy towards improvements in …
Euro
The Beginning, the Middle & the End ...?
Häftad, 2013
249 kr
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At the outset of the euro, there was strong opposition to Britain's participation from most free-market economists. However, economists took more nuanced positions with regards to participation by the majority of current euro zone member states. Indeed, continental free-market economists were …
Flaws and Ceilings
Price Controls and the Damage They Cause
Av W. Stanley Siebert, Steven Schwartz m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
56 kr
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Price controls across many sectors are currently being hotly debated. New controls in the housing market, more onerous minimum wages, minimum prices for alcohol, and freezes on energy prices are very high up the agenda of most politicians at the moment. Even without any further controls, wages, …
Flaws and Ceilings
Price Controls and the Damage They Cause
Av Richard Wellings, Christopher Snowdon m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
56 kr
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Price controls across many sectors are currently being hotly debated. New controls in the housing market, more onerous minimum wages, minimum prices for alcohol, and freezes on energy prices are very high up the agenda of most politicians at the moment. Even without any further controls, wages, …
Federal Britain
The Case for Decentralisation
Av Philip Booth
Häftad, 2015
202 kr
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The UK has the most centralised system of government amongst major economies. This results in poorer services, lower economic growth and higher taxes. We have also developed an approach to devolution that is incoherent and unstable. This short book proposes an entirely new set of constitutional …
Federal Britain: The Case for Decentralisation
The Case for Decentralisation
Av Philip Booth
E-bok, 2015
56 kr
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The UK has the most centralised system of government amongst major economies. This results in poorer services, lower economic growth and higher taxes. We have also developed an approach to devolution that is incoherent and unstable. This short book proposes an entirely new set of constitutional …
Federal Britain: The Case for Decentralisation
The Case for Decentralisation
Av Philip Booth
E-bok, 2015
54 kr
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The UK has the most centralised system of government amongst major economies. This results in poorer services, lower economic growth and higher taxes. We have also developed an approach to devolution that is incoherent and unstable. This short book proposes an entirely new set of constitutional …
In Focus
The Case for Privatising the BBC
Av Philip Booth
Häftad, 2016
249 kr
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This book makes a persuasive argument that the licence fee is no longer the right way to raise revenue for the BBC. While there was a case for this model when the only way to watch the BBC was through the ownership of a television, and there was no way to prevent anyone who owned a television from …
In Focus: The Case for Privatising the BBC
The Case for Privatising the BBC
Av Cento Veljanovski, Stephen Davies m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
56 kr
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The BBC holds a special place in the world of broadcasting. It derives its funding from a compulsory levy on people who may not even use the service. The protection it receives is justified on the grounds that it contributes to national welfare because of its role in ‘public service broadcasting’. …
In Focus: The Case for Privatising the BBC
The Case for Privatising the BBC
Av Cento Veljanovski, Stephen Davies m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
56 kr
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The BBC holds a special place in the world of broadcasting. It derives its funding from a compulsory levy on people who may not even use the service. The protection it receives is justified on the grounds that it contributes to national welfare because of its role in ‘public service broadcasting’. …
Taxation, Government Spending and Economic Growth
Av David B. Smith, Patrick Minford m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
54 kr
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Amidst the debates about 'austerity' a number of vital debates in public finance have been sidelined. Because the reductions in government spending - small though they have been so far- have been designed to reduce the government's borrowing requirement, there has been little discussion of whether …
Taxation, Government Spending and Economic Growth
Av David B. Smith, Patrick Minford m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
56 kr
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Amidst the debates about 'austerity' a number of vital debates in public finance have been sidelined. Because the reductions in government spending - small though they have been so far- have been designed to reduce the government's borrowing requirement, there has been little discussion of whether …
Having Your Say: Threats to Free Speech in the 21st Century
Threats to Free Speech in the 21st Century
Av Jacob Mchangama, Leo Kearse m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
99 kr
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Today should be a Golden Age for free speech - with technology providing more ways of communicating ideas and opinions than ever before. Yet we're actually witnessing a growing wave of restrictions on freedom of thought and expression. In Having Your Say a variety of authors - academics, …
Having Your Say: Threats to Free Speech in the 21st Century
Threats to Free Speech in the 21st Century
Av Jacob Mchangama, Leo Kearse m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
99 kr
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Today should be a Golden Age for free speech - with technology providing more ways of communicating ideas and opinions than ever before. Yet we're actually witnessing a growing wave of restrictions on freedom of thought and expression. In Having Your Say a variety of authors - academics, …
Carbon Conundrum: How to Save Climate Change Policy from Government Failure
Av Philip Booth
Häftad, 2022
249 kr
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Politicians around the world have signed up to achieving carbon net zero by 2050. And several countries, including the UK and those in the EU, have struck a ‘new green deal’. This puts environmental taxes and subsidies at the heart of energy policy. But it’s created an immensely complex and costly …
Spatial Planning Systems of Britain and France
A Comparative Analysis
Av Philip Booth, Michelle Breuillard m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
2306 kr
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Spatial Planning Systems of Britain and France brings together a wide selection of comparative essays to highlight the fundamental similarities and differences between the spatial planning in Great Britain and France: two countries that are near neighbours and yet have developed very different …
Planning by Consent
The Origins and Nature of British Development Control
Av Philip Booth
Inbunden, 2003
2581 kr
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**Please note this is an unedited paperback reprint of the hardback, originally published in 2003**The British system of universal development control celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1997. Remarkably, the system has survived more or less intact but the experience of the 1980s has left large …
Trying to Say It
Outlooks and Insights on How Poems Happen
Av Philip Booth
Häftad, 1996
318 kr
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As one of Robert Frost's last students, Philip Booth has for more than four decades written poems prized for their clarity and depth. As founder of the Syracuse University Creative Writing Program, he has been a crucial influence in the early stages of such individually distinguished poets as …
Towards a Liberal Utopia?
Av Philip Booth
Inbunden, 2006
853 kr
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The first part of this fascinating book outlines the dreams of liberal economics and political scientists. The thinkers sketch out frameworks for policy, which, in increasing the domain for individual action, will give rise to beneficial results and lead to a better and more prosperous soceity. The …
Modern Actuarial Theory and Practice
Av Ben Rickayzen, Robert H. Plumb m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
2229 kr
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In the years since the publication of the best-selling first edition, the incorporation of ideas and theories from the rapidly growing field of financial economics has precipitated considerable development of thinking in the actuarial profession. Modern Actuarial Theory and Practice, Second Edition …
Selves
Av Philip Booth
E-bok, 1991
115 kr
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Booth''s eighth poetry collection, with its evocations of compassion, tenderness and invading darkness, implies that redemption will come only from having loved well and wisely. Publishers Weekly remarked, "Booth is a traveler keenly, almost mystically, aware that ''how you get there is where …
Spatial Planning Systems of Britain and France
A Comparative Analysis
Av Didier Paris, Charles Fraser m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
813 kr
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Spatial Planning Systems of Britain and France brings together a wide selection of comparative essays to highlight the fundamental similarities and differences between the spatial planning in Great Britain and France: two countries that are near neighbours and yet have developed very different …
Spatial Planning Systems of Britain and France
A Comparative Analysis
Av Didier Paris, Charles Fraser m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
813 kr
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Spatial Planning Systems of Britain and France brings together a wide selection of comparative essays to highlight the fundamental similarities and differences between the spatial planning in Great Britain and France: two countries that are near neighbours and yet have developed very different …
Controlling Development
Certainty, Discretion And Accountability
Av Philip Booth
E-bok, 2003
849 kr
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First published in 1996. An introduction to development control, a topic of interest to students of planning or urban studies, with a comparative flavour, drawing particularly on the USA, France and Hong Kong.
