Power to the People
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Professor Michael Laughton
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Britain's electricity supply has been left dangerously vulnerable by the government's plans to phase out nuclear power and rely more on gas and renewable energy. Wind and solar power are costly and intermittent sources of energy that cannot fill the gap left by nuclear, while planned gas imports rely on a complex cross-national network that is easily disrupted by political upheavals in any one of a number of countries.
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Costing jobs
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Jonathan Woolham
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The only booming sector in the UK seems to be the public sector. We've skimmed the Guardian's jobs pages and added up the cost of all those community awareness co-ordinators (30,000 of them each year, at nearly a billion quid in salaries). Our report, by Jonathan Woolham, shows exactly where your hard-earned tax money is going.
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Competition in Corporate Control
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Elaine Sternberg
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Do we need regulation, rule-books and new codes of practice to keep boardroom executives in check? Corporate-governance specialist Elaine Sternberg says not. The keys to getting on-the-ball, responsible management are competition and shareholder empowerment. Her punchy report takes on the regulationists and shows how to achieve good governance without politics.
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Better science at less cost
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Tim Ambler
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Tim Ambler of the London Business School says that up to £1b a year is being wasted on unnecessary bureaucracy in the research councils - and that we would get better science at less cost by allocating the research budget directly to the universities.
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A Cloudy Energy Future
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Professor Ian Fells
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In a new ASI paper, distinguished energy expert Prof Ian Fells says the government's energy policy is 'timid, complacent, and reckless'.
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Consigned to oblivion
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By Ian Senior
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Around the world - Sweden, New Zealand, Germany, Netherlands - postal
services have been liberalised and the public is getting better services at
lower cost. Yet the UK - the pioneer of privatisation in the 1980s still
lumbers along with a state-owned post office that is now losing large
amounts of money. Ian Senior says it's time for the Post Office to embrace
competition, develop new services, and start making money...and he
identifies some precise opportunities to that end.
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Post Office Reform: Its importance and practicability
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Ian Senior
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The Post Office is not a natural monopoly whose market is difficult to contest. There is no interdependence between the three services: letters, parcels and counters thus they should be separated and privatized within a framework of 3-5 years.
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Respectable Trade
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Prof Norman Barry, 2000
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A critique of what the author calls the 'dangerous delusions of corporate social responsibility and business ethics'. Should we ask more of our business people than that they conduct their affairs as openly and honestly as anyone else?
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