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Essays in Regulation (new series)
Launched to mark the Institute’s 21st year of activity, the Essays series is intended to cover broad issues in regulatory policy. Submissions of papers for consideration in the series should be made to George Yarrow
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Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (“WoN”) is a foundational book in the social sciences and one of the classic works of human civilization, but like many classics it is rarely read. Its influence has been …
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As the Brexit negotiations begin to focus on future trading and customs arrangements these notes reprise the principal theme of Brexit and the Single Market2 (published in July 2016 in the wake of the referendum) …
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This essay is a developed version of the Zeeman Lecture given at the Regulatory Policy Institute’s Annual Conference on 26 September 2017 at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. The motivation for the Lecture was that, …
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The UK is currently a Contracting Party to the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement, and exit from the EU does not necessarily imply exit from the Single Market (i.e. withdrawal from the Agreement). Exit from …
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The word market is widely used in contemporary economic and political discourse, but usually without any clear sense of what it means or is meant to refer to. In a literal sense, people do not …
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This essay is focused on ways in which complexity in economic systems is addressed in policymaking and in particular on the over-simplifications that frequently occur in assessments. In doing so it touches on a range …
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