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The author explains why government and bureaucratic attempts at environmental protection have failed and argues that to safeguard the countryside we need to restore private property rights.

Shows how tax and benefits policy has undermined family life in Britain and encouraged fraud and dishonesty. This title also shows how the tax and benefits systems are particularly harsh on single-earner couples who have to earn over GBP50,000 before there is no loss from declaring their relationship to the authorities.

Presents a collection of papers from the Beesley Lecture series on regulation held jointly by the IEA and the London Business School in the autumn of 2000. The chapters in this volume are followed by comments made by the chairman.

Examines those areas where the freedom of individual men and women to voluntarily engage in mutually advantageous exchanges is prohibited or restricted by government. This collection looks at the economic and philosophical rationale for the prohibition of alcohol, sale of body parts, medicinal drugs, pornography, prostitution, and others.

Malaria kills millions of people each year and hundreds of millions more suffer chronic illness. Economic development is inhibited and poverty is perpetuated. This work argues that action against malaria is over-centralised and narrowly focused, ignoring local conditions and concerns.

Ludwig von Mises was one of the greatest economists and political scientists of the 20th century. He revolutionised the understanding of money, inflation and recessions; refuted the arguments for socialism; and, provided a devastating critique of the methodologies of mainstream economics. This book provides an overview of Mises' achievements.

Economic historian Professor Nick Crafts gives a wide-ranging assessment of the economic record of the recent Conservative Government.

Contains chapters on a number of prominent concerns, including changes in the British system of utility regulation, the spectrum allocation question, liberalisation of EU energy markets, security of supply issues, reform in the European postal sector, the future of rail regulation, the cost of capital and Ofcom's strategic approach to regulation.