Omega Report - Local government, planning and housing policy

The Adam Smith Institute's Omega Project was conceived to fill a significant gap in the field of public policy research. Administrations entering office in democratic societies are often aware of the problem which they face, but lack a well-developed range of policy options. The process by which policy innovations are brought forward are examined is often wasteful of time, and unconducive to creative thought. 

The Omega Project was designed to create and develop new policy initiatives, to research and analyze these new ideas, and to bring them forward for public discussion in ways which overcame the conventional shortcomings. 

The themes of this Omega Report are local government, planning and housing.

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Omega Report - Defence Policy

The Adam Smith Institute's Omega Project was conceived to fill a significant gap in the field of public policy research. Administrations entering office in democratic societies are often aware of the problem which they face, but lack a well-developed range of policy options. The process by which policy innovations are brought forward are examined is often wasteful of time, and unconducive to creative thought. 

The Omega Project was designed to create and develop new policy initiatives, to research and analyze these new ideas, and to bring them forward for public discussion in ways which overcame the conventional shortcomings. 

The theme of this Omega Report is defence.

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Hayek: His contribution

... to the economic and political thought of our time. This book, written by Dr Eamonn Butler, gives an introduction to the great Austrian economist and political philosopher Friedrich A. Hayek. The book covers the themes of Hayek's work, which consists more than 25 books and numerous articles. The topics include Hayek's understanding of the market process; his critique of socialism and the meaningless term of social justice, and Hayek's suggestions for the constitution of the liberal state.

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Omega Report - Scottish Policy

The Adam Smith Institute's Omega Project was conceived to fill a significant gap in the field of public policy research. Administrations entering office in democratic societies are often aware of the problem which they face, but lack a well-developed range of policy options. The process by which policy innovations are brought forward are examined is often wasteful of time, and unconducive to creative thought. 

The Omega Project was designed to create and develop new policy initiatives, to research and analyze these new ideas, and to bring them forward for public discussion in ways which overcame the conventional shortcomings. 

The theme of this Omega Report is scottish policy.

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Myth & Reality In Economic Systems

This paper investigated the need to go ‘Forward to Capitalism’

It looks into socialism, labour cartels and government interventionism - and places them all in the same tyrannous category

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Knowledge, Evolution and Society

This collection of lectures by the Nobel Laureate in Economics, F.A. Hayek, forms a unique sourcebook of his famous thinking on a crucial question: Was Socialism a Mistake?

Hayek’s central theme is that human beings never consciously planned society - it grew and evolved over the millennia. His argument is that it is the height of folly to suppose that we have the knowledge and expertise to cast aside our laws and institutions in an attempt to produce a better society.

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Freeports

The contribution in this volume formed a comprehensive account of the proposals for freeports in the United Kingdom

The idea of freeports is a bold one: cordoning off a piece of land with a perimeter fence and treating it as if it were a foreign country for customs purposes.

This paper looked at the nature of freeports around the world and attempts to discover which ones work, and why. The specific proposals ventures in Britain are described and reviewed.

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Solutions to the Problems of Public Sector Education

This paper proposes a radical solution to the failures of publicly-owned education: a tax rebate system.

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Economy and Local Government

This book is offered as a contribution to the debate on what services should be provided by local government, how they should be provided, and who should pay for them.

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The Governance of Quangos

With this work, Philip Holland brings a definitive account to the phenomenon of the Quasi-autonomous national governmental organisation, otherwise known as the QUANGO. Tracing their early development from government by crown-appointed boards, Philip Holland documents their gradual rise towards the uncontrollable and unanswerable bureaucracy which they had become by the second half of the twentieth century. 

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