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Produktbild: Towards a Liberal Utopia?

Towards a Liberal Utopia?

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

15.12.2006

Herausgeber

Philip Booth

Verlag

Bloomsbury

Seitenzahl

252

Maße (L/B/H)

22,2/14,5/1,8 cm

Gewicht

488 g

Auflage

2. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-8264-9231-9

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

15.12.2006

Herausgeber

Philip Booth

Verlag

Bloomsbury

Seitenzahl

252

Maße (L/B/H)

22,2/14,5/1,8 cm

Gewicht

488 g

Auflage

2. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-8264-9231-9

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Towards a Liberal Utopia?

  • 1. Introduction

    Part One: Times future?
    2. Health 2055

    -Promise and reality: how the NHS failed people

    -The political economy of health rationing

    -Tiptoeing back to market

    -A real market

    -Questioning the role of the state

    -Rise of the therapeutic state

    3. Education reclaimed

    -A dream of education without state

    -Three principles

    -The end of 'school'

    -Education for its own sake

    -The journey

    4. Policing a liberal society

    -The growth of crime

    -Better policing

    -Exploding myths

    -Successful ways of preventing crime

    -Applying these lessons to the UK

    -Major institutional change

    5. Pension provision in 2055

    -State involvement in pensions

    -Time to move on

    -The difficulty of moving on

    -The minimal state in pension provision

    -A more pragmatic approach

    -Transition arrangements

    6. Social security in a free society

    -The safety net

    -The alternative

    -Policy options for people out of work

    -Policy options for those in work on low pay

    -Provision for old age

    7. Limits on the tax burden

    -What is the limit of the tax burden?

    -Unsustainability of very high tax rates

    -Tax policy over the coming generations

    8. Britain's Relationship with the European Union

    -Agricultural protectionism

    -Manufacturing protectionism

    -Services: a regime of internal protectionism

    -Harmonisation

    -The EU pensions crisis

    -What should the UK do?

    9. Regulating the labour market

    -Increasing regulation

    -Freedom of contract?

    -What does regulation do?

    -The impact on the economy as a whole

    -Employment regualation in the long term

    10 Free trade: the next 50 years

    -Taking stock: the case for free trade, past and present

    -Taking stock: free trade in practice

    -Looking ahead: world political-economic trends

    -Looking ahead: making the case for free trade

    11. Competition in land use planning: an agenda for the twenty-first century

    -The case for markets in land use planning

    -Private land use planning: past, present and future

    -A liberal utopia

    12. Beyond Kyoto: real solutions to greenhouse emissions from developing countries

    -Economics, energy and emissions

    -Energy use and economic growth in develping countries

    -Choice of technology in developing countries

    -Economic freedom, market imperfections and greenhouse gas emissions

    -Impediments to efficient energy use in particular countries

    -Policy implications

    13. The environment in 2055

    -Benefits, risks and trade-offs

    -Private regulation: so safe and bright future

    -Over-fishing and individual transferable quotas

    -Privatisation and conservation

    -The decline of natural disasters

    -The last 50 years

    14. Capitalism

    -Capitalism yesterday and today

    -Capitalism tomorrow

    -Economic progress and individual freedom

    15. A constitution for liberty

    -A written, codified constitution

    -Constitutional limits on government

    -Inter-jurisdictional competition: national, regional and local government

    -Separation of powers and a constitutional court

    -A constitutional monarchy

    -The Houses of parliament

    16. The Hayekian future of economic methodology

    -The Hayekian challenge to twentieth-century economics

    -Hayek, complexity and knowledge

    -Bounded rationality and imperfect information: the real world of markets

    -Hayek, Vernon Smith and the future of 21st-century economics

    Part 2: Times Past

    -In the wake of Keynes - and Hayek

    -Harris and Seldon begin the fight back

    -The genius of Arthur Seldon

    -Recruiting among the awkward squad

    -And the world said...

    18. Playing the fool with inflation

    -Full employment at any price

    -Earlier monetary instruction

    -Friedman enters the fray

    -How much employment?

    -Hayek's competing currencies

    19. Now for 'planning'

    -On to 'growthmanship'

    -Behold: the national plan

    -Does planning never work?

    -...even in France

    -Not forgetting free trade

    -The verdict on planning

    20. Market versus state

    -Incorrigible socialism

    -What about the unions?

    -Why not welfare?

    -Public choice

    21. Behind enemy lines

    -Cool reception

    -Planning again

    -Enter bete noir Shonfield

    -Et tu, William

    -Keep smiling

    -Honourable defeat

    -Valediction