Organisation: Pressure groups
A business unlike any other
According to Angela Knight, Chief Executive of the British Bankers' Association: "A bank is like any other business - if its fixed operating costs go up then so does the price of its product." Angela has provided a nice illustration of how…
Securing the UK's Energy Future (for us)
One thing leads to another. The APPGOPO report covered in the previous post refers to the first report by the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil & Energy Security (ITPOES) on "The Oil Crunch: Securing the UK's Energy Future", which has been…
Attack or surrender in the battle of ideas
In the long run, it's ideas that matter. And they aren't all equal. Truth is not subjective, and neither are right and wrong. Political tactics and novelty may seem all-important to the chattering class, but expedient can never make wrong…
The public-choice incentives of the economics profession
I am a supporter of and enthusiast for the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), the leading free-market think-tank. So I was shocked to read, in what I think is the best post I have seen on Guido's site, that the IEA's Shadow Monetary…
Paying for controversy
There has been condemnation today of the stale news (perhaps pumped up to make the new IPCC report more interesting) that the ExxonMobil-funded American Enterprise Institute (AEI) have been offering to fund research questioning the…