Economic Affairs

2003 - 2025

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Volume 24, month 12, 2004

EDITORIAL:‘EDUCATION FOR ALL’ THROUGH PRIVATISATION? pp. 2-3

James Tooley and James Stanfield

PRIVATE EDUCATION AND ‘EDUCATION FOR ALL’ pp. 4-7

James Tooley

PRIVATE EDUCATION AND‘EDUCATION FOR ALL’‐ OR HOW NOT TO CONSTRUCT AN EVIDENCE‐BASED ARGUMENT: A REPLY TO TOOLEY pp. 8-11

Kevin Watkins

‘A LUTA CONTINUA’ (THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES): REJOINDER TO WATKINS pp. 12-16

James Tooley

BASIC EDUCATION AS A HUMAN RIGHT pp. 17-21

Larry Willmore

SHARING THE BURDEN OF FINANCING: GOVERNMENT AND HOUSEHOLD PARTNERSHIPS FOR BASIC EDUCATION pp. 22-26

Mark Bray

EFA AND PRIVATE EDUCATION: SOME REGIONAL EXPERIENCES AND FINDINGS pp. 27-30

Igor Kitaev

THE REGULATION OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS SERVING LOW‐INCOME FAMILIES IN HYDERABAD, INDIA: AN AUSTRIAN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE pp. 31-36

Pauline Dixon

ECONOMICS, RELIGION AND THE DECLINE OF EUROPE pp. 37-40

Niall Ferguson

CHALLENGES FOR FINANCIAL STABILITY POLICY pp. 41-46

Alastair Clark

LIFE INSURANCE: REGULATION AS CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT pp. 47-52

Alan Morrison

FEDERATION WITH MAJORITY DECISIONS: ECONOMIC LESSONS FROM THE HISTORY OF THE UNITE D STATES, GERMANY AND THE EUROPEAN UNION pp. 53-59

Roland Vaubel

MUST GOVERNMENT GO FISHING? pp. 60-61

Gerald Elliot

MONITOR MONEY, NOT INTEREST RATES pp. 62-62

Tim Congdon

SAMUEL SMILES ON EDUCATION pp. 63-63

James Stanfield

THE BRITISH LYSENKO? pp. 64-64

Roger Bate

CITIZEN EMPOWERMENT: BY BALLOT BOX OR MARKET? pp. 65-65

John Meadowcroft

Volume 24, month 09, 2004

EDITORIAL: LESSONS FROM PRIVATISATION pp. 2-8

David Parker

FURTHER LESSONS FROM PRIVATISATION pp. 9-15

Martin Ricketts

PRIVATISATION O F ENERGY: WAS IT NECESSARY? pp. 15-23

Nigel Essex

WATER PRIVATISATION: TOO MUCH REGULATION? pp. 24-31

Colin Robinson

THE UK RAILWAY PRIVATISATION: FAILING TO SUCCEED? pp. 32-38

David Tyrrall

IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO PRIVATISE ROYAL MAIL pp. 39-45

Ian Senior

MAKING UP HISTORY: A COMMENT ON PRATTEN pp. 46-49

E. Roy Weintraub

RECLAIMING HISTORY: A REPLY TO WEINTRAUB pp. 50-52

Stephen Pratten

RETHINKING TAX POLICIES: NEW IDEAS FROM A DEAD ECONOMIST pp. 53-57

Kurt Wickman and Christopher Lingle

CREATING A CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER OF FREEDOM IN EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES pp. 58-63

James A. Dorn

WHAT MONETARY POLICY CAN DO: THE CLARIFIED APPROACH OF THE ECB pp. 64-68

Dietrich Schönwitz

THE MORECAMBE BAY COCKLE PICKERS: MARKET FAILURE OR GOVERNMENT DISASTER? pp. 69-71

John Meadowcroft and John Blundell

PRINCIPLES OF POLITICS APPLICABLE TO ALL GOVERNMENTS BY BENJAMIN CONSTANT pp. 72-73

Dennis O'Keeffe

SQUEEZING THE RICH IS NO ANSWER TO FISCAL PROFLIGACY pp. 74-74

Tim Congdon

THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION pp. 75-75

James Tooley

ENVIRONMENTALISTS MUDDY THE WATER pp. 76-76

Roger Bate

EXTERNALITIES AND THE PROPERROLE OF GOVERNMENT pp. 77-77

John Meadowcroft

Volume 24, month 06, 2004

EDITORIAL: MORALITY, RESPONSIBILITY AND THE MARKETPLACE pp. 2-4

Philip Booth

ETHICS AND THE MARKET ECONOMY: INSIGHTS FROM CATHOLIC MORAL THEOLOGY pp. 4-10

Samuel Gregg

TRUST AND PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY IN A LIBERAL MARKET pp. 11-18

Chris Daykin

THE MARKET ECONOMY AND THE TEACHINGS OF THE CHRISTIAN GOSPEL pp. 19-20

Jonathan Aitken

CORRUPTION, THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PRIVATESECTOR: WHY IT MATTERS AND WHAT CAN BE DONE pp. 22-29

Ian Senior

SWITZERLAND: GROWTH OF GOVERNMENT, GROWTH OF CENTRALISATION pp. 30-36

Victoria Curzon Price

MATHEMATICAL FORMALISM IN ECONOMICS: CONSEQUENCES AND ALTERNATIVES pp. 37-42

Stephen Pratten

THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EMPIRICAL MEASURES OF FREEDOM: A RESEARCH CHALLENGE TO LIBERAL ECONOMISTS pp. 43-46

Sebastiano Bavetta and Pietro Navarra

MARKET POWER AND THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. 47-51

George G. Djolov

MARKETS, IMPER FECTIONS AND THE DANGERS OF OVER‐REGULATING ENERGY MARKETS pp. 52-55

Colin Robinson

REIGNITING THE RAILWAY CONVERSION DEBATE pp. 56-59

Paul F. Withrington

WHO PAYS FOR WHEELCHAIRS? pp. 60-61

Geoffrey E. Wood

PIOUS LIES: THE JUSTIFICATION OF STATES AND WELFARE STATES pp. 62-64

Anthony de Jasay

THEATRE CRITICS AND THEATREGOING pp. 65-69

Ian Senior

BYE‐BYE BBC? pp. 70-70

Tim Congdon

PUBLIC‐PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS: A CAUTIONARY TALE pp. 71-71

James Tooley

MOORE WISDOM NEEDED pp. 72-72

Roger Bate

A LIBERAL MANIFESTO FOR THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS pp. 73-73

John Meadowcroft

Volume 24, month 03, 2004

EDITORIAL: CONSTITUTIONAL DELIBERATIONS OVER EUROPE pp. 2-4

Norman Barry

HISTORICAL LESSONS FOR EUROPE'S FUTURE IN THE WAKE OF THE EU CONVENTION pp. 5-10

Paul Robinson

CONSTITUTIONALISM, FEDERALISM AND THE EUROPEAN UNION pp. 11-16

Norman Barry

THE EUROPEAN COURT: THE FORGOTTEN POWERHOUSE BUILDING THE EUROPEAN SUPERSTATE pp. 17-21

Martin Howe

THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSAL OF THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION: AN APPRAISAL AND EXPLANATION pp. 22-27

The European Constitutional Group

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND INTER‐JURISDICTIONAL COMPETITION pp. 28-33

Martin Ricketts

LOOKING BACK AT THE CONDENSED VERSION OF THE ROAD TO SERFDOM AFTER 60 YEARS pp. 34-38

John Blundell

TOWARDS DESIGNING AN IDEAL PATENT SYSTEM pp. 39-43

Alexei Orlov

THE MEASURE OF INFLATION pp. 44-48

Andrew Lilico

J.M.KEYNES: AN EMPEROR WITHOUT CLOTHES (ONE NON‐ECONOMIST'S VIEW OF ANOTHER) pp. 49-52

Terry Arthur

THE NORTH AMERICAN BLACKOUT AND ELECTRICITY POLICY: ALTERNATIVES TO TRANSMISSION CONSTRUCTION pp. 53-57

Lynne Kiesling

HOW THE WELFARE STATE ENCOURAGES THE POOR TO ‘SPEND, SPEND, SPEND’ pp. 58-58

Tim Congdon

BRING BACK SCHOOL FEES pp. 59-59

James Tooley

CLIMATE CHANGE, LUDDITES AND UNNECESSARY DEATHS pp. 60-60

Roger Bate

THE REGIONAL FALLACY pp. 61-61

John Meadowcroft