Tag: Politics
Everyday tale of truth and falsehood
The reason competitive markets work is because, over time, we have stumbled on processes which force people to reveal what they really want and how much they want it.
Review: New Labour (New Statesman)
The proposition which New Labour offered the voters in 1997 was essentially a simple one. Labour was very like the Conservative party while...
Crisis, what crisis?
The crisis in the European social model should be clearly visible from Copenhagen. It proves hard to establish what is really supposed to be going wrong.
Risky business of genes
Our social attitudes, and our economic institutions – from the welfare state to the commercial legal system – depend on the increasingly tenuous distinction between nature, nurture and personal responsibility.
Equality and the Modern Economy: Are companies the new partners in...
Wednesday 28th October 1998
In the last of these seminars, John Gray described the social liberal position in equality, which he contrasted with what he...
Tick here if you have understood
Should regulations be clear, transparent and certain? To answer the question one must recognise the importance of informal systems of cultural regulation.
The Third Way
Is the third way simply an eclectic compromise which offers to drop any unpalatable bits from the familiar ideologies of far right and far left? I argue that if there is a third way, this is not where we will find it.
Economic Education: February 1998
John describes five groups of reasons why economic education is an indispensable part of any general education.
Frontiers of fashion
We overestimate the importance of short-term political change, and underestimate the significance of deep-seated societal difference.
Question of duty
It is not satisfactory that the Hampel Report can only offer an account of directors’ duties which is confusing and fundamentally incoherent.
