ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01718.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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Despite denials by the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, economists are beginning to wonder whether the Government has abandoned its commitment to contain state expenditure. Rosalind Levacic (right), of the Open University, examines the resistance of the bureaucracy to political attempts to restrict its growth.

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01719.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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Economists have long argued that the current state method of financing old‐age pensions is a time‐bomb that may blow up in the lap of future generations. Professor Norman Barry (right), of the University of Buckingham, welcomes the proposals in the Green Paper on welfare but argues that government must act much more rapidly to avoid burdening future Britons with the enormous dimensions of the pensions of the debt the American Government is building up fonts coming citiz

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01720.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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The BBC has constantly sought to justify its state support by claiming that it must offer ‘public‐service’ broadcasting. David Graham (right), of Channel 4′s Diverse Reports, argues that the BBC's position is both a misunderstanding of economic reality and a brake upon the development of consumer choice and diversity in the market. The Government's ‘protection of the well‐heeled’ imposes ‘middle‐class tastes on ordina

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01721.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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The revolutionary agreement between the Japanese car manufacturer, Nissan, and the Associated Union of Engineering Workers (AUEW) at Nissan's Washington plant (top right) could herald an extraordinary change in British labour relations. Dr Charles Hanson (right) of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, argues that British manufacturing must follow the Nissan example or the future will look bleak.

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01722.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The widespread starvation in Africa has been largely blamed on enduring drought, but Ghanaian George Ayittey (right), Professor of Economics at Bloomsburg State College, reveals how Africa's food problems have been created government interference with the agricultural meyhods that have fed her for centuries.457

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01723.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Distortions of employment in the health care market can be laid squarely at the door of government. Professor Dennison (right), formerly Vice‐Chancellor of the University of Hull, reveals why even an imperfect market is preferable to a state monopol

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01724.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) survives despite unprecedented popular opposition in all countries, Linda Whetstone (above), of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, suggests drastic liberalization would bring political reward.

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01725.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The market for health care in America is constantly used as an Aunt Sally by British health economists. But, Dr David Green (above), a political scientist and welfare economist at the IEA, reveals why the American system is hardly a free market and why it has misled debate in the UK.

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01726.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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The age‐old human desire to impose order on the diversity af human activity lies at the root of intellectual antipathy towards capitalism. Dr Stephen Davies (right), of Manchester Polytechnic, argues that, until, the training of intellectuals allows them to appreciate the ‘chaos’ of the market, their understanding of the world and of people will remain impe

ISSN:0265-0665    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01727.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY