Forging Europe’s Leadership: Global Trends, Russian Aggression and the Risk of a Regressive World
£19.99This book argues that the European Union can, in cooperation with others, play a crucial role in averting a regressive world.
This book argues that the European Union can, in cooperation with others, play a crucial role in averting a regressive world.
Throughout history, it has been those brave enough to puncture the prevailing groupthink who have propelled society forward. But they are in shockingly short supply today. In this collection of original essays, Brendan O’Neill remakes the case for heresy – and commits a few heresies of his own along the way.
Where did woke come from? And whose interests does it serve? This is a book about how a once fringe set of ideas took our elites by storm, and why this is bad news. The book argues that we have much more in common than the woke would have us believe – and that it is time to come together to forge a freer, more democratic and truly egalitarian future.
This book contributes to dialogue across all continents concerning the priorities of reforming world governance – with policies to address global challenges. It makes proposals for reform of the world governance system in areas such as climate and environment, social issues, digital transformation, trade and supply chains and industrial policy.
Top Dogs & Fat Cats provides fascinating insights into the nature of high pay and provides a compelling contribution to one of today’s most contentious issues.
There have been many attempts to build a socialist society, from the Soviet Union to Maoist China to Venezuela. All of them have ended in failure. But, according to socialism’s adherents, that is only because none of these experiments were “real socialism”. This book documents the history of this response.
What are drug courts? Do they work? Why are they so popular? Should countries be expanding them or rolling them back? These are some of the questions this volume attempts to answer.
From a Western point of view, the policy of economic engagement with China has failed. How did Western, market-orientated, property-owning, liberal democracies go from being in a position of complete global hegemony in the early 1990s to the current crisis of confidence?
The book proposes that negative VAT should be charged on healthy foods and high VAT should be charged on unhealthy foods. It sets out a four-step process to actually implement this new regime, each step of which depends on mechanisms that have already been used by government.
This is a book about the legacy of the Great Financial Crisis for the European Union which continues to struggle with a policy of austerity and the resulting low growth, high unemployment and strains on its welfare systems.
Changing London is a rough guide for the next Mayor capturing the radical but practical ideas of the people of London with a pioneering and collaborative approach to politics. This is the book the voters wrote and vital reading for those who would be Mayor, and those who will decide.
With so many conflicting views and a balance to be struck between growth and conservation, what housing market outcomes might be regarded as a success for policymakers? This book attempts to give at least some answers, concluding with a list of criteria by which success might be judged along with a list of policy recommendations.
This book challenges the assumption that it is bad news when the economy doesn’t grow. For decades, it has been widely recognised that there are ecological limits to continuing economic growth and that different ways of living, working and organising our economies are urgently required.
‘Market failure’ is a term widely used by politicians, journalists and university and A-level economics students and teachers. However…
F. A. Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty has had a profound effect on the thinking of a generation of scholars, students and even politicians…
This short book provides a brief introduction to the work of the late Elinor Ostrom, 2009 Nobel Laureate in economics…