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The RPI can announce the dates of our Annual Competition and Regulation Conference 2026, which will take place on the 14th and 15th of September 2026, at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Today the RPI can announce the launch of the RPI Membership Scheme, which guarantees organisations and individuals access to RPI Events and activities, allows those organisations and individuals a voice in shaping the RPI’s direction and schedule, and helps fund the RPI’s general mission
The RPI can today announce the eighth session of our Strategy and Governance Forum group, delivered by the RPI’s George Yarrow, titled “The Governance of Regulatory Policy Assessment”
The RPI can announce the dates of our Annual Competition and Regulation Conference 2026, which will take place on the 14th and 15th of September 2026, at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Monopoly is a major theme in the Wealth of Nations, as reflected in 175 usages of the word in the work, and, when applied to a single business, Smith’s opening analysis will be well known to students of economics today
The full title of Adam Smith’s major work is An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (the “WoN”). Today we observe governments
Marking the 250th anniversary year of the publication of the Wealth of Nations, in the second of a series of blogs on the contemporary relevance of Adam Smith’s work, the Insights team take a look at his nuanced, changing assessment of the English Navigation Acts
In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith put forward four general principles that he judged a tax system should satisfy. While the economic system then was much smaller and much less complex than now – the revenue required by the state funded a much narrower range of activities – principles are relatively enduring across changes in contexts.
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