Why Fight Poverty?
£9.99This book looks back at the struggle to rid the country of poverty and asks if the struggle is worth it. What would a poverty free country be like if we could overcome the obstacles which impede progress?
This book looks back at the struggle to rid the country of poverty and asks if the struggle is worth it. What would a poverty free country be like if we could overcome the obstacles which impede progress?
The financial sector has provided London with an extraordinary impetus for growth over a generation – but what will follow it? The regeneration of Kings Cross and the Olympic boroughs show what the next stage of London’s growth will look like, with an economy driven by accountants and geeks, not bankers.
A rightly ordered business economy with strong, Catholic-inspired, provision of healthcare and education is a necessary requirement for prosperity and well-being. Underpinning economic life must be a thriving civil society and good governance, including peace, high levels of trust and low levels of corruption.
Towards a Humane Refugee Policy for the European Union outlines a clear and detailed proposal on how to engage municipalities and civil society initiatives in the relocation and reception of migrants and asylum seekers.
While not a military player itself, the European Union has emerged as a significant actor by aiding the Ukrainian war effort, supporting refugees, sanctioning Russia and turning Ukraine into a candidate for EU membership. This book tracks these developments and looks at the key aspects of the war from a European perspective.
Cet ouvrage, qui rassemble les points de vue d’experts renommes de toute l’Europe, devrait constituer un guide pratique pour tout penseur, decideur ou militant progressiste, ainsi que pour tout citoyen desireux de prendre part au necessaire debat democratique sur notre avenir.
This book brings together the insights of experts from across Europe to rethink Europe’s socioeconomic model in the glare of the environmental and digital transformations; to redefine Europe’s role in the world to contribute to renewed multilateralism; to strengthen investment in public goods; and, to re-invent our democratic contract.
This book provides a comparative look at the discourses and practices of abortion rights across Europe.
This book describes the economic and political history of the past half a century, examining the challenges confronted by successive governments and their Chancellors, the policies employed for good or ill, and the desperate search for a panacea that could arrest the nation’s relative decline and return the country to its supposed former glories.
This book examines the four factors that challenge the fate of the European social model: globalization, monetary union, Eastern enlargement and digitalization. It then highlights where common EU policy can be part of the solution, rather than part of the problem, which was too often the case in the past.
This book maps out how to design better transport. Engineers measure success by speed and efficiency – but these are not the way that passengers think about a good trip. We choose how to travel, influenced not only by speed and time but by habit, status, comfort, variety – and many other factors that engineering equations don’t capture at all.
In an attempt to understand why we persistently fail to learn from catastrophic events, this book considers two questions. — Why don’t we learn? — What would it take to enable real systemic change? It concludes by offering an accessible model for systemic change as a framework to evoke reflection and enquiry.
Raising the Roof addresses the UK’s housing crisis, and one of the most centralised planning systems in the democratic world. The IEA’s 2018 Richard Koch Breakthrough Prize sought free-market solutions to this complex and divisive problem, including cutting and devolving tax, and reforms to allow cities to both densify and beautify.
Ayn Rand: An Introduction illuminates Rand’s importance, detailing her understanding of reality and human nature, and explores the ongoing fascination with and debates about her conclusions on knowledge, morality, politics, economics, government, public issues, aesthetics and literature.
Trade is no longer just the ships, planes and lorries that move the goods we buy around the world or the services we consume either physically or digitally. This book examines the US, Chinese and Russian approaches to `strategic trade’ and argues that Europe must adapt or lose out.
This book addresses one of the most vexing problems facing humans today: how can we create and use technologies so that they deliver maximum benefit and pose minimum harm?