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· 제목 : Towards a Liberal Utopia? (Hardcover, 2nd)
· 분류 : 외국도서 > 인문/사회 > 정치학 > 정치사상 > 공산주의/사회주의
· ISBN : 9780826492319
· 쪽수 : 252쪽
· 출판일 : 2006-10-15
· 분류 : 외국도서 > 인문/사회 > 정치학 > 정치사상 > 공산주의/사회주의
· ISBN : 9780826492319
· 쪽수 : 252쪽
· 출판일 : 2006-10-15
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1. Introduction
Part One: Times future?
2. Health 2055
2. Health 2055
-Promise and reality: how the NHS failed people
-The political economy of health rationing
-Tiptoeing back to market
-A real market
-Questioning the role of the state
-Rise of the therapeutic state
3. Education reclaimed
-A dream of education without state
-Three principles
-The end of 'school'
-Education for its own sake
-The journey
4. Policing a liberal society
-The growth of crime
-Better policing
-Exploding myths
-Successful ways of preventing crime
-Applying these lessons to the UK
-Major institutional change
5. Pension provision in 2055
-State involvement in pensions
-Time to move on
-The difficulty of moving on
-The minimal state in pension provision
-A more pragmatic approach
-Transition arrangements
6. Social security in a free society
-The safety net
-The alternative
-Policy options for people out of work
-Policy options for those in work on low pay
-Provision for old age
7. Limits on the tax burden
-What is the limit of the tax burden?
-Unsustainability of very high tax rates
-Tax policy over the coming generations
8. Britain's Relationship with the European Union
-Agricultural protectionism
-Manufacturing protectionism
-Services: a regime of internal protectionism
-Harmonisation
-The EU pensions crisis
-What should the UK do?
9. Regulating the labour market
-Increasing regulation
-Freedom of contract?
-What does regulation do?
-The impact on the economy as a whole
-Employment regualation in the long term
10 Free trade: the next 50 years
-Taking stock: the case for free trade, past and present
-Taking stock: free trade in practice
-Looking ahead: world political-economic trends
-Looking ahead: making the case for free trade
11. Competition in land use planning: an agenda for the twenty-first century
-The case for markets in land use planning
-Private land use planning: past, present and future
-A liberal utopia
12. Beyond Kyoto: real solutions to greenhouse emissions from developing countries
-Economics, energy and emissions
-Energy use and economic growth in develping countries
-Choice of technology in developing countries
-Economic freedom, market imperfections and greenhouse gas emissions
-Impediments to efficient energy use in particular countries
-Policy implications
13. The environment in 2055
-Benefits, risks and trade-offs
-Private regulation: so safe and bright future
-Over-fishing and individual transferable quotas
-Privatisation and conservation
-The decline of natural disasters
-The last 50 years
14. Capitalism
-Capitalism yesterday and today
-Capitalism tomorrow
-Economic progress and individual freedom
15. A constitution for liberty
-A written, codified constitution
-Constitutional limits on government
-Inter-jurisdictional competition: national, regional and local government
-Separation of powers and a constitutional court
-A constitutional monarchy
-The Houses of parliament
16. The Hayekian future of economic methodology
-The Hayekian challenge to twentieth-century economics
-Hayek, complexity and knowledge
-Bounded rationality and imperfect information: the real world of markets
-Hayek, Vernon Smith and the future of 21st-century economics
Part 2: Times Past
-In the wake of Keynes - and Hayek
-Harris and Seldon begin the fight back
-The genius of Arthur Seldon
-Recruiting among the awkward squad
-And the world said...
18. Playing the fool with inflation
-Full employment at any price
-Earlier monetary instruction
-Friedman enters the fray
-How much employment?
-Hayek's competing currencies
19. Now for 'planning'
-On to 'growthmanship'
-Behold: the national plan
-Does planning?never work?
-...even in France
-Not forgetting free trade
-The verdict on planning
20. Market versus state
-Incorrigible socialism
-What about the unions?
-Why not welfare?
-Public choice
21. Behind enemy lines
-Cool reception
-Planning again
-Enter bete noir Shonfield
-Et tu, William
-Keep smiling
-Honourable defeat
-Valediction
