Stabilität und Fortschritt: Das Problem der reicheren Länder

Ohne ZusammenfassungAus dem Englischen übersetzt von Vally Rothschild, Wien     

weasel words born are every day

Sir Alfred Sherman, founder of the Centre for Policy Studies and distinguished journalist, defines and attacks 'weasel words'.     

Book Review Should you be starting from here?

Elizabeth Vallance, Business ethics at work, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. xi + 191, £10.95, ISBN: 0 521 405688     

Who owns the universities? The battle for university independence and against the dependency culture

Universities have lapsed into an‘abject state of financial dependence on central government’from which they should be reclaimed. Moreover, they are no longer intellectually independent. A 'single, simple financial reform’would make a great difference: universities need to determine the costs of their activities, charging accordingly, and government should once again offer students scholarships which would cover the greater part of the‘basic costs’of their courses.     

The Case for Economic Thought

Does the current state of the British economy provoke a sense of déjà vu? Sir Alfred Sherman, the co-founder and former Director of Studies at the Centre for Policy Studies, argues that monetarism is not enough.