Economic Affairs

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Volume 32, month 10, 2012

Financial Regulation – the need for a revolution pp. 2-3

Philip Booth

Editorial Statement – a new beginning for Economic Affairs pp. 4-5

Philip Booth and J. R. Shackleton

How is Banking Regulation Changing, and How Could it be Better? pp. 6-10

Andrew Lilico

Too Big to Fail: UK Financial Services Reform in History and Policy pp. 11-16

Ranald Michie

A Well-Intentioned Folly: The Macroeconomic Implications of S olvency II pp. 17-23

Amarendra Swarup

Promoting a free market by ending the S ingle M arket – reforming EU financial regulation pp. 24-31

Philip Booth and Alan Morrison

The EU Proposals for The Regulation of Alternative Investments pp. 32-36

Laurence Copeland

The Alternative of Private Regulation: The London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market as a Model pp. 37-43

Edward Stringham and Ivan Chen

The Problems of Accounting Standards pp. 44-49

D. R. Myddelton

Regulation without Reason: The Deleterious Effects of Government Regulation on Private Pension Provision pp. 50-57

Nick Silver and Saurabh Pant

Can Banks Self-Regulate? Voluntary Agreements, Intrinsic Motivation and Games pp. 58-64

Aidan Walsh, Piotr Magnuszewski and Anna Slodka-Turner

Causes and Cures of the Great Recession pp. 65-69

Steven Horwitz

Planning Reform and Housing Costs: Why The Coalition Failed and What it Means pp. 70-77

Kristian Niemietz

How Governments Should Support the Adjustment of Competitiveness in the Euro Area – and How They Should Not pp. 78-84

Holger Zemanek

Liberating Farming from the CAP pp. 85-93

Séan Rickard

On One Forgotten Cause of the A rab Spring: the Lack of Economic Freedom pp. 94-96

Emmanuel Martin

Us Debt and Deficits: Time to Reverse the Trend pp. 97-101

James Barth and Tong Li

Rethinking Inflation: New Perspective from an Old Indicator pp. 102-106

Mark Ungewitter

Private Equity and Agency Costs: an Economic Analysis pp. 107-109

Adam Baldwin

Who Invented ‘ QE ’? pp. 110-110

Tim Congdon

Economic Freedom and the A sian Century pp. 111-111

Razeen Sally

Questioning the Anti-Profit Mentality in Education pp. 112-112

James Stanfield

The Deadly World of Falsified and Sub-Standard Medicine pp. 113-113

Roger Bate

From Big Macs to Big Brother? What is the culture of the market? pp. 114-114

John Meadowcroft

Engineering the Financial Crisis: Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation by Jeffrey Friedman and Wladimir Kraus, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 212pp., ISBN: 978 081 224 3574, £29.50 (hb), 2011 pp. 115-117

Antonio Foglia

The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes The Moral Life by Kenneth Minogue New York: Encounter, 374pp., ISBN: 978 159 403 3810, £15.99 (hb), 2010 pp. 117-118

Christie Davies

Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics by Nicholas Wapshott New York/London: W.W. Norton & Co., 382pp., ISBN 978 039 307 7483 $28.95/£18.99 (hb) 2011 pp. 118-119

G. R. Steele

Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance by Jane Gleeson-White London: W. W. Norton, 304pp., ISBN: 978 039 308 8960, £11.50 (hb), 2012 pp. 119-120

Arthur Edwards

Why Capitalism? by Allan H. Meltzer Oxford: Oxford University Press, 156pp., ISBN: 978-0199859573, £14.99 (hb), 2012 pp. 120-121

Alberto Mingardi

Volume 32, month 06, 2012

Public Goods and Club Goods – Does the State Need to Provide Libraries? pp. 1-1

James B. Stanfield

EDITORIAL: EIGHT YEARS SINCE THE ORANGE BOOK: HAVE THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS ‘RECLAIMED’ LIBERALISM? pp. 2-5

Thomas Papworth

No Case for Plan B – Lessons for the Great Recession From the Great Depression pp. 2-3

Kent Matthews

OFFA's Demands Could Lead to Leading Universities Opting-Out of State Funding pp. 4-4

J. R. Shackleton

CLASSICAL LIBERALISM IN THE LIBERAL PARTY SINCE 1886 pp. 6-10

Stephen Davies

THE ORANGE BOOK – TURNING RIGHT OR CHANGING GEARS? pp. 11-16

Emma Sanderson-Nash

THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS AND SUPPLY-SIDE ECONOMICS pp. 17-20

Tim Leunig

THE ORANGE BOOK, THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM pp. 21-26

Thomas Papworth

THE ORANGE BOOK, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL MOBILITY pp. 27-30

Paul Marshall

THE ORANGE BOOK: EIGHT YEARS ON pp. 31-35

David Laws

FAT TAXES AND OTHER INTERVENTIONS WON'T CURE OBESITY pp. 36-40

Barrie M. Craven, Michael Marlow and Alden F. Shiers

PRESCRIPTION FOR CONFLICT: WHY THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY AND THE ANTI-TOBACCO MOVEMENT IS NOT IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF SMOKERS pp. 41-46

Patrick Basham and John C. Luik

CONTROL RIGHTS (AND WRONGS) pp. 47-58

Andrew Haldane

COMMENT ON THE 2011 WINCOTT LECTURE, ‘CONTROL RIGHTS (AND WRONGS)’ pp. 59-62

Martin Wolf

SIR WALDRON SMITHERS AND THE MUDDLE OF THE TORY MIDDLE pp. 63-67

Andrew Farrant and Nicola Tynan

PROTECTIONISM AND PROPERTY RIGHTS: COASIAN BARGAINING AND DEBT-FOR-NATURE SWAPS pp. 68-73

Bradley K. Hobbs

WHAT ELUDES INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS ON CLIMATE CHANGE? THE ECONOMICS OF GLOBAL PUBLIC GOODS pp. 74-80

S. Niggol Seo

THE INTERNALISATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL EXTERNALITIES AFFECTING DWELLINGS: A REVIEW OF COURT CASES IN HONG KONG pp. 81-87

Rita Yi Man Li

THE CHINA MODEL: IS IT A GOLDEN FORMULA? pp. 88-90

Kenli Schoolland

THE DECISIONS OF THE SHADOW MONETARY POLICY COMMITTEE AND MONETARY POLICY COMMITTEE SINCE 2002 pp. 91-93

Jahyun Koo, Ivan Paya and David Peel

THE DECISIONS OF THE SHADOW MONETARY POLICY COMMITTEE AND MONETARY POLICY COMMITTEE SINCE 2002: A REJOINDER pp. 94-95

David B. Smith

THE AGEING POPULATION: CRUNCH TIME FOR GOVERNMENT REFORMS pp. 96-100

Les Mayhew and Ben Rickayzen

LIQUIDITY TRAP CLAPTRAP pp. 101-101

Tim Congdon

A BRIEF POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE EUROZONE CRISIS pp. 102-102

Razeen Sally

OMEGA SCHOOLS, GHANA pp. 103-103

James Stanfield

ZIMBABWE'S FUTURE AND THE ‘KIMBERLEY PROCESS’ pp. 104-104

Roger Bate

DO THE WORST GET ON TOP? AN ANSWER FROM PUBLIC CHOICE pp. 105-105

John Meadowcroft

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves – By Matt Ridley pp. 106-107

Elaine Sternberg

Government Versus Markets: The Changing Economic Role of the State – By Vito Tanzi pp. 107-108

Alberto Mingardi

Flourishing and Happiness in a Free Society: Toward a Synthesis of Aristotelianism, Austrian Economics and Ayn Rand's Objectivism – By Edward W. Younkins pp. 108-110

Graham Dawson

The Future of Banking – Edited by Thorsten Beck pp. 110-111

David Howden

So Much Aid, So Little Development: Stories from Pakistan – By Samia Waheed Altaf pp. 111-112

Cecily Liu

Volume 32, month 03, 2012

Does Foreign Aid Make the Poor Poorer? pp. 1-1

Philip Booth

The History and Politics of Government Spending and Debt pp. 2-3

Stephen Davies

A Critique of ‘Steady State Economics’ pp. 4-4

Kristian Niemietz

Volume 32, month 02, 2012

THE ECONOMICS OF POPULATION GROWTH pp. 2-3

Dermot Grenham

THE BENEFITS OF MIGRATION pp. 4-9

Michele Binci

POPULATION AND THE ECONOMY DURING THE DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION pp. 10-16

David Reher

LOOKING TOWARDS 2030: A NEW WORLD COMING INTO FOCUS pp. 17-25

Nicholas N. Eberstadt

THE DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT pp. 26-30

Robert Eastwood and Michael Lipton

THE BURDEN OF DURABLE ASSET ACQUISITION IN GROWING POPULATIONS pp. 31-37

Jane N. O'Sullivan

INTER‐CITY BUS SERVICES IN CANADA – TIME FOR DEREGULATION pp. 38-42

Vincent Geloso

SIR WALDRON SMITHERS AND THE LONG WALK TO FINCHLEY pp. 43-47

Andrew Farrant and Nicola Tynan

PRICE EFFECTS OF SHOPPING HOURS REGULATION: EVIDENCE FROM GERMANY pp. 48-54

Karthik Reddy

TRADE POLICY AND PROTECTIONISM IN ARGENTINA pp. 55-59

Andres Gallo

COUNTERING THE ASSAULT ON CAPITALISM pp. 60-63

Fred L. Smith, Jr.

KEYNES, KEYNESIANISM AND KRUGMAN pp. 64-67

G. Steele

PROBLEMS OF PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE USA: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES pp. 68-71

William Murchison and Svetozar Pejovich

CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS – WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION OR RELIABLE INDICATOR? pp. 72-74

Dennis Sebastian Klieber

LESSONS FOR TEMPERATURE LIMITS FROM THE US DEBT CEILING DEBATES pp. 75-77

S. Niggol Seo

BANK RECAPITALISATION COULD ENDANGER THE ECONOMY pp. 78-78

Tim Congdon

THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IN 2012 pp. 79-79

Razeen Sally

THE UN AND THE PROFIT MOTIVE IN EDUCATION pp. 80-80

James Stanfield

BRITAIN'S HIGH GREEN TAXES pp. 81-81

Roger Bate

THE CALCULUS OF CONSENT AT 50 YEARS pp. 82-82

John Meadowcroft

Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and The Creation of Game Theory: From Chess to Social Science, 1900–1960 – By Robert Leonard pp. 83-84

Ralf M. Bader

Intellectuals and Society – By Thomas Sowell pp. 84-85

Art Carden

Freedom in the 50 States: An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom – By William P. Ruger and Jason Sorens pp. 85-85

John Blundell

All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis – By Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera pp. 85-86

William Luther

Democracy and the Fall of the West – By Craig Smith and Tom Miers pp. 86-87

Alan Peacock

The Tragedy of the Euro – By Philipp Bagus pp. 88-89

David Howden