Insights into Regulation
The merits of Merits Review
As set out in To ‘see’, or not to ‘see’: that is the question. Moving on from a half-brained
August 8, 2023
Documents
Search by Category
Search by Topic
Recent Documents
Essays in Regulation
To ‘see’, or not to ‘see’: that is the question. Moving on from a half-brained system of economic governance
Why do similar mistakes appear to be repeated over and over again in the conduct of economic policy? Why
July 6, 2023
Insights into Regulation
Regulating net migration flows: the wisdom of Econ101?
Net migration flows (about the regulation of which members of the RPI have been writing since 2017) are again
June 6, 2023
Insights into Regulation
Technology Tussles: The Trilemma Strikes Back!
We have written before about the need for effortful and holistic thinking in the context of global decarbonisation, and
May 10, 2023
Insights into Regulation
Policy myopia – open your eyes (plural) and see
In a recent blog, the Insight Team highlighted the dangers of poorly constructed policies in terms of the increased
March 23, 2023
Insights into Regulation
The burdens (plural) of regulation
Policy debates about the burden of regulation have tended to focus on estimates of administrative costs imposed upon firms
March 14, 2023
Insights into Regulation
The End of Net Zero
The first Insights blog of the new year continues to emphasise a central theme of earlier pieces: the dangers
January 19, 2023
Insights into Regulation
Markets versus regulation? Drop the ‘versus’!
November’s pre-conference Insights blog is concerned with the meaning of the word ‘market’. The term appears often in economic
November 18, 2022
Insights into Regulation
Routine and its Limitations
Routine and its limitations’ completes a short cycle of three blogs with a common, thematic root: dysfunctions in the
October 30, 2022
Insights into Regulation
Old spectacles for myopic governments: monasteries and speculae
The latest Insights blog is concerned with narrowness of vision in economic policy/regulation and the distraction that is a
October 2, 2022
Insights into Regulation
The Insolence of Office
The second in the new Insights into Regulation series of short blogs addresses the causes and effects of a
August 9, 2022
Insights into Regulation
Climate policy – ‘Tain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it.
In a new series of short blogs under the thematic title ‘Insights into Regulation’, members of the Regulatory Policy
June 22, 2022
Documents
Covid-19: What have we learned about the importance of trustworthy statistics?
The Zeeman Lecture at the September 2021 Conference on ‘Rethinking Regulation’ was delivered by Ed Humpherson -Director General for
January 27, 2022
Documents
Re-thinking climate change policies: A tale of two externalities
In this short paper, Gerard Fox and George Yarrow argue that, in the context of climate change policies, the
January 12, 2022
Documents
A Commentary on the Opening Chapters of ‘An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations’
Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (“WoN”) is a foundational book in the social sciences and one of the classic
October 15, 2021
Books
Airport Enterprises: An Economic Analysis
‘Airport Enterprises: An Economic Analysis’ frames the airport firm as a business platform for a broad spectrum of commercial activities, some of which enjoy the characteristics of two-sided markets