Trade
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Breaking the Constitutional Silence
Reforming the outsourcing sector is only a first step to a more general reconsideration of the place of the corporation in our constitution.
- Constitution
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The March Towards Post-Democracy, Ten Years On
The price we have to pay for the loss of trust produced by the supremacy of the profit motive in an economy of highly imperfect competition.
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Business and Labour
If Labour offers policies to attract the votes of the non-wealthy, the wealthy are not likely to be favourably impressed. That’s just how partisan politics works.
- Trade
- Labour Party
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The End of an Era in Pension Reform
The Financial Times (20 March) called it ‘the biggest pensions revolution for almost a century’ but their timing is a few decades out.
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- Health, Education & Welfare
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Tax and Spending (Again)
The depth of the spending cuts now being implemented by Whitehall departments and local authorities across the UK is unprecedented in postwar Britain.
- Trade
- Health, Education & Welfare
- Labour Party
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The Coalition's Carbon Crunch
David Cameron’s announcement that the Government would legislate to force energy companies to put customers on their lowest tariffs sounded good for a couple of hours, but it quickly unravelled.
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- Environment & Climate Change
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Our Economic Prospects After Party Conference Season are Still Dire
The party conference season has ended with no-one any the wiser as to how the British economy will get out of its current dire condition.
- Parliament
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Politics and the Business Cycle
"Read my lips: no new taxes" (George Bush, 1988)
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The Effects of the European Monetary System on Anglo-Irish Relations (1979)
What happened when Ireland decided to join the European Monetary System?
- Trade
- Ireland
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The Politics of Inflation
Inflation in the late twentieth century is as much a political phenomenon as an economic one.
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