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Property Rights: Do they also include Responsibilities?
Across from where the writer is sitting there is a rather forlorn and neglected house of considerable size. In its heyday it must have been the home of a prosperous upper-middle-class family. For a...
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Trade Unions and Business Corporations: Reaching for the Common Good
Both the newspapers and the televised media constantly remind us of our current economic difficulties. The revenues and profit-margins of firms large and small are shrinking. Many shops and factories...
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Executive Pay and Responsibility: Where the Buck Stops
The recent debate over the bonus of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Chief Executive, Stephen Hester, has reached its all-but-inevitable conclusion. He has decided it would be inappropriate in the...
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Reframing the Economic Debate: Personal Responsibility and the American Homeless
At present it is hard to feel anything other than gloom about economic news. Unemployment fugures are high and firms struggle to access much-needed finance. The current global orthodoxy for governments...
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John Maynard Keynes and the Big Society
John Maynard Keynes Following the financial crash of 2008 the economic ideas of John Meynard Keynes experienced a revival. Some argue that the recent policies of both the British and American...
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Shareholder Action: A Positive Development?
The annual meeting of Barclay’s Bank shareholders held last week, drew comment in the press. There was concern and dissatisfaction over executive remuneration. This follows similar expressions of...
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‘One Nation Under CCTV’ Or Welcome to the Dictatorship of Relativism
‘Modernity’, wrote Hegel, ‘is the secularisation of religion’. In many ways this is true of twentieth-century Europe during which we saw one responsibility after another pass from churches into the...
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By Dr. Matthew Knight & Robert Stephenson-Padron We are in an age of ‘crises’ – a glance through newspapers over the last few weeks produces recognition of no fewer than seven varied crises...
View ArticleBob Crow, Strikes and Society
This week Londoners are divided: some know they need to work, and others feel they must strike. Due to the interconnectedness of occupations this engenders bitterness. If the strikers were retail staff...
View ArticleCan rich countries afford a living wage?
Britain’s Conservative led government has just approved a significant increase in minimum wages, the first real-terms increase since 2008. The cries of low-paid workers have finally reached the ears of...
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