Economic Affairs

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Volume 30, month 10, 2010

EDITORIAL: NGOS AND DEVELOPMENT pp. 2-5

Julian Morris

EARLY ISLAMIC CHARITIES AS CATALYSTS OF INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION pp. 6-8

Benedikt Koehler

THE CHARITY COMMISSION – POLITICISED AND POLITICISING pp. 9-13

Stanley Brodie

RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT pp. 14-17

George Gelber

ENGAGING THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO IMPROVE HEALTH IN AFRICA pp. 18-21

Philip Stevens

NGOS VS CIVIL SOCIETY: REFLECTIONS ON THE ILLIBERAL, THE ILLEGITIMATE AND THE UNACCOUNTABLE pp. 22-28

Elaine Sternberg

THE GROWING INVOLVEMENT OF FOREIGN NGOs IN SETTING POLICY AGENDAS AND POLITICAL DECISION‐MAKING IN AFRICA pp. 29-34

Mike Norton‐Griffiths

LIBERATE TO LEARN: EDUCATION VOUCHERS IN PAKISTAN pp. 35-41

Ali Salman

COMPETITIVENESS WITHIN THE EURO AREA: THE PROBLEM THAT STILL NEEDS TO BE SOLVED pp. 42-47

Holger Zemanek

CAN WE PUT POOR MEN TO WORK? pp. 48-52

Lawrence M. Mead

THE BROKEN UNIVERSITY: WHAT IS SEEN AND WHAT IS NOT SEEN IN THE UK HIGHER EDUCATION SECTOR pp. 53-58

James Stanfield

THE EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC REGULATION IN THE ISTANBUL TAXICAB MARKET pp. 59-64

Tamer Cetin and Fuat Oğuz

COACHING COSTS AS TULLOCK COSTS: A MODEL OF RISING COACHING SALARIES pp. 65-69

Kurt Rotthoff and Ann Mayo

WHAT AUSTRIAN BUSINESS CYCLE THEORY DOES AND DOES NOT CLAIM AS TRUE pp. 70-71

Anthony Evans

THE SEVENTH‐CENTURY ISLAMIC GOLD STANDARD pp. 72-74

Benedikt Koehler

LEST WE FORGET pp. 75-78

Svetozar Pejovich

INFLATION ECONOMICS: THE HEATH–BARBER BOOM, 1972–74 pp. 79-81

G. Steele

LIBERTY BETWEEN THE LINES IN A STATIST AND MODERNIST AGE: UNFOLDING THE ADAM SMITH IN FRIEDRICH HAYEK pp. 82-85

Daniel Klein

WHY FREE MARKETS SHOULD NOT BE BLAMED FOR THE CURRENT RECESSION pp. 86-89

Ángel Martín Oro

POSTCODE LOTTERIES pp. 90-92

G. Steele

BANKER BASHING MAY LEAD TO AN EXODUS FROM THE CITY pp. 93-93

Tim Congdon

THE SHIFT TO THE EAST pp. 94-94

Razeen Sally

THE RISE AND FALL OF FOR‐PROFIT LIBRARIES pp. 95-95

James Stanfield

CLIMATE AND DISEASE – NOT MUCH OF A LINK ANYMORE pp. 96-96

Roger Bate

ALTERNATIVE VOTE: THE PROSPECTS FOR LIBERTY pp. 97-97

John Meadowcroft

Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy and Why it Matters for Global Capitalism – By George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller pp. 98-99

Oskari Juurikkala

The World's First Railway System: Enterprise, Competition and Regulation on the Railway Network in Victorian Britain – By Mark Casson pp. 99-101

Christie Davies

Wilhelm Röpke's Political Economy – By Samuel Gregg pp. 99-99

Greg Kaza

Anxious to Do Good: Learning to Be an Economist the Hard Way – By Alan Peacock pp. 101-101

Geoffrey Wood

Volume 30, month 06, 2010

EDITORIAL: INNOVATION AND REGULATION IN ENERGY SUPPLY pp. 2-5

Stephen Jones and George Yarrow

PROMOTING INNOVATION IN THE ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY pp. 6-12

Lynne Kiesling

INNOVATION AND COMPETITION IN GENERATION AND RETAIL POWER MARKETS pp. 13-20

Elizabeth Hooper and Catherine Waddams Price

A NUCLEAR FUTURE? UK GOVERNMENT POLICY AND THE ROLE OF THE MARKET pp. 21-27

David M Newbery

NETWORKS, INNOVATION AND REGULATION pp. 28-32

Stephen Smith

REGULATION AND THE NATURAL PROGRESS OF OPULENCE pp. 33-39

Sam Peltzman

DEFERRED FEES FOR UNIVERSITIES pp. 40-44

Neil Shephard

LACK OF RIGOUR IN DEFENDING FAIRTRADE: A REPLY TO ALASTAIR SMITH pp. 45-49

Peter Griffiths

LACK OF RIGOUR IN DEFENDING FAIRTRADE: SOME IMPORTANT CLARIFICATIONS OF A DISTORTING ACCOUNT – A REPLY TO PETER GRIFFITHS pp. 50-53

Alastair M. Smith

LIBERAL ECONOMICS AND THE RISE OF LAISSEZ‐FAIRE ECOLOGY pp. 54-60

Andrew Ryder

MONEY STILL MATTERS – THE IMPLICATIONS OF M4X FOR QUANTITATIVE EASING pp. 61-67

David B. Smith

ECONOMIC SANCTIONS REVISITED: ADDITIONAL INSIGHTS INTO WHY THEY FAIL pp. 68-70

Charles A. Rarick and Thaung Han

THE TRUTHINESS HURTS pp. 71-76

Art Carden and Mike Hammock

ZERO CONSISTENCY: A CRITIQUE OF CARITAS EUROPA'S ‘ZERO POVERTY’ CAMPAIGN pp. 77-78

Kristian Niemietz

TRAFFIC LIGHTS: WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRACTION, DANGER AND DELAY pp. 79-80

Martin Cassini

DISASTROUS ANTI‐ECONOMICS AND THE ECONOMICS OF DISASTERS pp. 81-84

Art Carden

GROWING PAINS FOR THE NEXT GOVERNMENT pp. 85-85

Tim Congdon

A NEW STRATEGY FOR BRITAIN IN EUROPE pp. 86-86

Razeen Sally

A FREEDOM‐BASED APPROACH pp. 87-87

James Stanfield

OBAMA'S NOBEL PRIZE FOR RHETORIC pp. 88-88

Roger Bate

ECONOMICS BEATS POLITICS pp. 89-89

John Meadowcroft

Financial Fiasco: How America's Infatuation with Home Ownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis – By Johan Norberg pp. 90-91

D. W. MacKenzie

The Peacock Committee and Uk Broadcasting Policy – Edited by Tom O'Malley and Janet Jones pp. 91-92

Christian Potschka

The Aid Trap: Hard Truths about Ending Poverty – By R. Glenn Hubbard and William Duggan pp. 92-93

Astrid Arca

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right – By Jennifer Burns pp. 93-94

Art Carden

The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics – By William R. Easterly pp. 94-95

Ángel Martín Oro

The Solidarity Society: Why We Can Afford to End Poverty, and How to Do It with Public Support – By Tim Horton and James Gregory pp. 95-96

Kristian Niemietz

Volume 30, month 03, 2010

EDITORIAL: ECONOMIC LIBERALISM AND SOCIAL JUSTICE pp. 2-5

John Meadowcroft and Gerard Casey

INSPECTING THE FOUNDATIONS OF LIBERALISM pp. 6-12

Anthony De Jasay

LAND REFORM AS SOCIAL JUSTICE: THE CASE OF SOUTH AFRICA pp. 13-20

Karol Boudreaux

SOME COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS IN DISCUSSION OF MARKETS AND MORALITY pp. 21-26

Thomas E. Woods

SUGGESTIONS ON REBUILDING CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING ON ECONOMICS pp. 27-32

William R. Luckey

THE KNOWLEDGE INHERITANCE THEORY OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE pp. 33-37

Elaine Sternberg

THE FUTURE OF MARKETS pp. 38-42

John Kay

STATE EDUCATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: DEMANDED OR IMPOSED? pp. 43-47

Kate McNally

WHY ARE SOME PLACES RICH WHILE OTHERS ARE POOR? THE INSTITUTIONAL NECESSITY OF ECONOMIC FREEDOM pp. 48-54

Art Carden and Joshua Hall

DR OLSON'S ANTIDOTE FOR INSTITUTIONAL SCLEROSIS pp. 55-60

John Considine and Robert Butler

THE SUSTAINED IMPACTS OF TAXI DEREGULATION pp. 61-65

Sean D. Barrett

GLOBALISATION: PAST AND PRESENT pp. 66-70

Dilip K. Das

CONTROLLING BANKERS' BONUSES: EFFICIENT REGULATION OR POLITICS OF ENVY? pp. 71-76

Kent Matthews and Owen Matthews

THE SPANISH EXTERNAL SECTOR: A POLICY OF TRADE OPENNESS pp. 77-82

Estela Sáenz

THE USE AND ABUSE OF MARKETS IN HOUSING POLICY pp. 83-87

Peter King

FAIR TRADE IS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE AND UNFAIR: REJOINDER pp. 88-91

Colleen Haight and David R. Henderson

CHALLENGING THE EMPIRICAL EMPIRE pp. 92-94

Helen Jackson and Paul Ormerod

ELINOR OSTROM – NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS 2009 pp. 95-96

Paul Dragos Aligica

WHITHER CONSUMER PROTECTION IN FINANCIAL MARKETS? LESSONS FROM THE FINANCIAL CRISIS OF 1857 pp. 97-100

Benedikt Koehler

THE ‘BROKEN WINDOWS’ THEORY AND THE NEW YORK EXPERIENCE RECONSIDERED pp. 101-102

Joseph S. Fulda

THE NEED FOR JOINED‐UP DEBT MANAGEMENT POLICY pp. 103-103

Tim Congdon

WILL ASIA GO REGIONAL? pp. 104-104

Razeen Sally

WHY NOT TESCO SCHOOLS, SIR TERRY? pp. 105-105

James Stanfield

ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL FREEDOM DRIVE PROSPERITY pp. 106-106

Roger Bate

THREE MYTHS OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS pp. 107-107

John Meadowcroft

The Official History of Privatisation, Volume 1: The Formative Years 1970–1987 – By David Parker pp. 108-109

D. R. Myddelton

Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice – By Tom G. Palmer pp. 109-110

Daniel Waxman

Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World – By Tyler Cowen pp. 110-110

John Blundell

Entrepreneurship and Economic Progress – By Randall G. Holcombe pp. 110-112

Art Carden

The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st Century City – Edited by Rutherford H. Platt pp. 112-113

Emily Washington