Dr Eamonn Butler

Eamonn Butler is director of the Adam Smith Institute. He is the author of books on the pioneering economists Milton Friedman, F.A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises and Adam Smith, and co-author of Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls and books on intelligence testing. He has degrees in economics, philosophy and psychology, gaining a PhD from the University of St Andrews in 1978.

Butler on Museums

Written by | Saturday 11 September 2004

And this fact, that it is the politicians and not the public who pay
the bills, has divided our museums from the public they are supposed to
serve. They don't reflect our culture, but that of the elites in power
- elites who love big projects, and who find a few big budgets easier
to manage than a lot of small ones.

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Time that Inheritance Tax died the death

Written by | Tuesday 31 August 2004

But there is mounting outrage, because more and more families are being hit by this tax. HBOS, the big mortgage lender, says that 2.4 million UK homes are now valued above the £263,000 IHT threshold. That's 2.4 million families potentially liable to death taxes - a million more than two years ago.