Economy

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  Governing the beautiful game

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  Aaryaman Banerji, February 2023 This Civitas publication looks at the prospect of regulation within English men’s football, something that has a large impact on football fans and the local community. Aaryaman Banerji is a sports researcher at Civitas looking at how we regulate ‘the beautiful game’. Against the backdrop of football’s growing institutional graveyard, with… Read Full Article
  
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  How UK energy subsidies drove down consumption, pushed up prices and reduced our prosperity

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  Dr John Constable, March 2023 This briefing from energy expert Dr John Constable, seeks to put the question of falling UK energy consumption into the spotlight, and offers reasons for thinking that it is, or rather should be, a matter of profound concern rather than complacency or even self-congratulation. Constable looks at UK energy consumption… Read Full Article
  
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  Inclusive Capitalism: How we can make independence work for everyone

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  David G. Green, February 2017 The UK is taking back its independence at a time when some of the unspoken assumptions of recent times are shifting. To speak of the political left or the political right no longer has a clear meaning. Some say that the real divide is between globalisation and nationalism, but this… Read Full Article
  
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  Left Behind

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  John Mills, October 2019 Something has gone badly awry with social democracy in recent years. Not so long ago, government by centre-left parties seemed almost to be the natural order of affairs in stable and prosperous economies. Today the position is very different, as voters have turned their back on them across much of the… Read Full Article
  
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  Overcrowded Islands?

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  Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts CBE, July 2020 The UK population has grown fast in recent years – an increase of 6.6 million since 2001 with a further increase of 5.6 million expected by 2041. Even for a geographically small island, the UK is relatively crowded by comparison with France and Germany. Indeed, an overwhelming… Read Full Article
  
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  Rebooting Britain: How the UK economy can recover from Coronavirus

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  Julian Jessop and J.R. Shackleton, June 2020 The crisis does not signal a failure of capitalism nor the need for permanent increase in government intervention or public spending, says a new briefing paper from the IEA and Civitas. The risks of this crisis to the UK economy should not be downplayed; The decline will be huge… Read Full Article
  
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  Rethinking Race:

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  Joanna Williams, April 2021 By almost all statistical measures, Joanna Williams argues, society is less racist today than at any other point in the past century – a point which is rarely celebrated. Still less is this considered a reason to leave people to negotiate inter-cultural and inter-racial relationships for themselves. Despite there being less… Read Full Article
  
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  The Elephant in the Room

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  John Mills, October 2020 Covid-19 has forced the UK into an economic crisis, generating the deep recession with which we are now faced. To bounce back, this book argues, we need a fundamental rethink about the economic policies that have caused us to deindustrialise and to allow the massive imbalances – from which the UK… Read Full Article
  
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  The failing quango state

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  Richard Norrie, April 2023 Dr Richard Norrie (Director of the Statistics and Policy Research Programme at Civitas) reviews the role of ‘Arms Length Bodies’ in this latest Civitas publication. £223.9 billion was spent by so-called arm’s length bodies (ALBs) in 2020, which employed 318,714 people. As a percentage of total government expenditure, that is 21… Read Full Article
  
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  The Great Disconnect: Why too many small business owners feel let down

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  Tim Knox, March 2020 For the past two decades, politicians from across the political spectrum have been vocal in their praise of small business – often to great acclaim when producing initiatives in government. But, do we know what business owners themselves think of government? As Tim Knox explains in this study on how micro-businesses… Read Full Article
  
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  The Left Case for Brexit

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  Philip B. Whyman, September 2018 Two years on from the vote for Brexit, the process of withdrawal remains mired in debate about the kind of relationship an independent UK should be seeking with the European Union and the wider world. With the date for departure moving ever closer, there is a desperate need for a… Read Full Article
  
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  The Radical Progressive University Guide

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  Dr Richard Norrie, January 2023 The Radical Progressive University Guide sets out to quantify the extent of ‘radical progressive’ policies at British Universities, including their curbs on free speech. Dr Richard Norrie (director of the statistics and policy research programme) uses evidence from media reports and university websites to compile a new ‘radical progressive’ league… Read Full Article
  
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