Cobden Centre Radio: Brian Micklethwait interviews Toby Baxendale
byIn our second Cobden Centre Radio show, Brian Micklethwait interviews Toby Baxendale about Toby’s formative background and how this helped him reach towards the…
CentreRight: Douglas Carswell leads the way on bank reform
byOn CentreRight, I explain that Douglas Carswell leads the way on bank reform: There is a doctrine which creates wealth and spreads it around. It…
James Dines: Gold, Rare Earth, Uranium, and the Mother of all Bubbles
byRare Earth elements are essential for the production of modern technology — for instance, Toyota Prius drive motors rely upon dysprosium. Phones, computers, and…
Spreading Hayek, Spurning Keynes
byWe’re delighted to see that the Wall Street Journal has published a profile piece on Cobden Centre Advisory Board member Prof. Peter J. Boettke:…
Cobden Centre Radio: Show One, Interview with Dr Tim Evans
byEverybody’s doing it — even educated fleas are doing it — so we thought we better produce our own multi-media content and produce our own radio…
Let universities choose their entrance criteria
byA simple tweak to the funding of school exam boards would lead to better standards and more appropriate examinations at lower cost The grade…
EU Referendum Campaign launched
byThis post originally appeared on stevebaker.info. Dan Hannan and Ruth Lea have launched the EU Referendum Campaign: The EURC is an organisation that is…
It’s official – the British government owes trillions
byAnother great article from the IEA, this time by Nick Silver: Earlier this year I published a report estimating British government debt at £4.8…
Roger W. Garrison: Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle
byProfessor Roger Garrison, the main macro-economist in the Misesian wing of the Austrian School of economics, presented a superb hour-long lecture last month, at…
Hack away – and smile while doing it, minister
byAs the silly season comes to an end and the party conferences approach, the coalition government will find it needs to go beyond its…