This colloquium discusses the causes, nature and framework for crime prevention in the UK. Although no consensus was attempted, the majority of participants believe that alternative ways of curbing crime other than simply sentencing policy should be pursued.
Streets Ahead
This report by Nick Elliott shows how people in parts of the UK, the US and many other countries have given up on failing local services and take over the management of their own streets - leading to better services, calmer and safer traffic, and falling crime.
Read it here.
The Future of Community Care
In this paper several experts discuss the future of community care in the UK.
Read the full paper here.
A Capital Offence
In A Capital Offence, published in 1989, Dr Barry Bracewell-Milnes and Bruce Sutherland CBE propose the abolition of capital gains and income tax as they argue this would create wealth and incentivise production. In his concluding remarks, Dr Barry Bracewell-Milnes hopes to see dramatic cuts in capital gains tax and tax in the near future.
The Art of the State
The Art of the State by Douglas Mason outlines the argument for the removal of state interference in the arts sector. He explains the moral and practical argument for freeing the arts from the bureaucratic elite.
A Home For Enterprise
Written by Douglas Mason for the Adam Smith Institute and published in 1989, A Home For Enterprise suggests that one of the Scottish islands should be set aside as a home for anyone from Hong Kong who wished to live there.
You can read the paper here.
Bricks in the Wall
Bricks in the Wall by Daniel Moylan argues for the liberalisation of markets and the negative effects of protectionism on markets in light of the European Commission adopting a series of protectionist measures.
Duty to Repeal
These modes of taxation, by stamp–duties and by duties upon registration, are of very modern invention. In the course of little more than a century, however, stamp–duties have, in Europe, become almost universal, and duties upon registration extremely common. There is no art which one government sooner learns of another, than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
All taxes upon the transference of property of every kind, so far as they diminish the capital value of that property, tend to diminish the funds destined for the maintenance of productive labour. They are all more or less unthrifty taxes that increase the revenue of the sovereign, which seldom maintains any but unproductive labourers; at the expense of the capital of the people, which maintains none but productive.
So wrote Adam Smith over 300 years ago. Still the problem persists today, and even though Nicholas Gibb wrote this report into Stamp Duty two decades ago it is still pertinent today. Quite simply it is a call for the abolition of Stamp Duty.
A Decade of Revolution: The Thatcher Years
The writers of this work examine many of the aspects in which a transformation has been achieved. The story which they collectively tell is one of a revolution: but not of a revolution complete, rather that of a revolution which is continuing. Many of them, while detailing the results already achieved, point to further progress which could be made. Thus, at the end of the first ten years of the Thatcher administration, the story they tell is one of achievement and success which continues, and for which the need continues.
You can read the full paper here.