Is a common morality necessary for the proper functioning of a market, or is religious freedom an undeniable facet of overall freedom in a liberal society? This paper explores those questions and comes to the conclusion that the implementation of market strategies for the Church of England will more successfully promote itself and recruit members, rather than withering within its shelf of state protection, while promoting the freedom of choice that accompanies open markets. In a classic liberal idea, the church will have more importance and influcence if chosen on the market rather than forced by the state.
Banking on the Future
Banking on the Future by Ian Smedley, with additional material by Antoine Clarke and Simon McIlwaine, advocates a liberal perspective on banking, suggesting free banking and private currency, through current and historical examples such as free banking in Scotland.
The Environmental Alphabet
In the Environmental alphabet Russell Lewis talks about a number of key environmental issues including causes and effects.
A Disorderly House
This paper examines the place of excise duties on alcohol within the British fiscal system. It argues that United Kingdom taxes are by international standards heavy on beer, even heavier on wine and very heavy on spirits. These duties on alcohol are the result of historical accident and political pressures and have little or no economic rationale.
Privatization East and West
To succeed, privatization movements need public and political support. We must explain to the public how these changes will result in a better future for themselves and for their children. We must explain the process of change and how long it will take.
Read the first part of the full report here and the last part here.
Wood for the Trees
The privatization of the Forestry Commission and the reasons why are looked into by Douglas Mason. He looks closely at the history of the Forestry Commission and the reasons as to why they have failed in all areas to make state owned forestry viable. He highlights one area, visitors to the forests, as the only one if run properly by the State that could be profitable, though the need for change exists. Douglas Mason also looks at how the privatization could be pushed through and how best to protect the forests under the private sector.
Read it here.
Privatization in the Nineties
Privatization can spread wealth and reduce budget deficits in post-communist and developing countries, say contributors to the Sixth London Conference on Privatization, including Guy de Selliers, Eduardo Modiano, Ibrahim Elwan & Ustun Sanver.
Judgement Day
Our courts our slow, outdated, and costly. Adam Thierer shows how people in the US have abandoned them for private arbitration: and how the state and federal courts have had to accommodate this change. A model for modernising the court service in the United Kingdom and elsewhere?
Read it here.
Blueprint for a Revolution
A complete guide through the theory, strategy, and record of rolling back the state in the UK - privatization, internal markets in health education, making executive agencies more independent, and the Citizen's Charter.
Read the whole paper here.
An Act Against Trade
Dr Barry Bracewell-Milnes writes on UK tax prejudice against trading abroad and the problem of surplus ACT and its solution.