The UK Chancellor (Finance Minister), George Osborne, presented plans for taxation and spending that pay homage to environmental concerns. But his measures rely on the mistaken belief that market mechanisms and other interventions are substitutes, not complements. (This article is part of an IPPR
The emergence of India, Brazil and China as economic powerhouses will have a dramatic impact on resources, environment, manufacturing goods and income distributions. It will also increase the resources devoted to R&D that might abate some of the tensions created. But the so-called "structural adju
The left has usually found two ways of building a good society: growth and redistribution, or the definition and articulation of a good state of affairs. A period of opposition is a time to return to the second: to win arguments rather than outcomes (This is part of the IPPR's New Era Economics se
The key to understanding why market economies have outperformed planned societies is not recognition of the ubiquity of greed, but understanding of the power of disciplined pluralism. (This article is part of an IPPR series more of which can be read here)
