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The RPI can today announce that Catherine Yarrow, our now former Executive Director, has taken on a new role working for the Department of Health and Social Care in their Better Regulation unit. We congratulate Catherine on this move, and look forward to seeing her at future RPI events in a participatory rather than organizational capacity.
The RPI can today annouce the dates of our Annual Competition and Regulation Conference 2025, which will take place at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford between the 15th and 16th September, 2025.
Scaling geologic time to (say) one year, homo sapiens has existed for less than an hour. In that twinkling of an eye, we have developed some capacity for foresight – an enormous evolutionary leap in one of nature’s creatures.
The 6th piece in our series Past Learnings, this piece is an extensive re-working of a paper first published in September 2016, which was likewise a thought experiment on a potential regulatory approach to the control of migration flows
The RPI’s latest piece in our Past Learnings Series discusses the complexity of economic systems and the common inability of policy-makers to fully account for that complexity when making policy changes.
“Change” was the slogan of the British Labour Party in the recent General Election. It certainly didn’t do serious damage to electoral prospects; but it
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