This session will be led by Ben Gough (PwC UK), entitled “Endpoint versus Evolution: Economic Regulation after the Cunliffe Review”
The RPI can announce the next session of our Strategy and Governance Forum, hosted by George Yarrow, who will be presenting his talk, originally planned for our Annual Conference 2025, “Cause of Productivity Growth: Insights and Empty Boxes”
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.
In Britain, the 1980s was a decade of major regulatory reform in Britain. Water and Financial Services were signature examples. In both industries, the model which emerged was that state agencies should create a rulebook and senior executives and financiers would be allowed, even encouraged, to make as much money as possible for themselves from these activities, subject to observing the rules. In both industries, this approach can now be seen to have failed. The proposed response to these failures is to write still more rules and reshuffle the responsibilities of regulatory agencies.
In this talk, John Kay will argue that the underlying philosophy was flawed from inception, that the planned tinkering will have at best marginal effect, and that both industries should be restructured within the context of a broader reappraisal of the relationship between business and society.
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.
The next RPI Study Group session, now renamed to the “Strategy and Governance Forum”, will be led by George Anstey.
The RPI can today announced the date of the 4th meeting of the Economic Strategy and Governance Study Group, which will take place at the National Liberal Club on the 26th March
The RPI can today announced the date of the 3rd meeting of the Economic Strategy and Governance Study Group, which will take place at the
We can today announce the date of the second meeting, which will take place on the 3rd October, with the same timings as the first meeting (arrival from 5pm, 5:30pm start time, concluding at 7pm with wine available for attendees), again at the National Liberal Club. We will confirm the topic in the coming weeks.
The RPI can announce the dates for our 2024 Annual Competition and Regulation Conference. This will be hosted at Lady Margaret Hall on the 9th-10th September 2024. The theme of the conference is Challenges for the New Government: Identifying Strategic Priorities