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MEETINGS: Oz comeback, Muffineers, Media bill, Schools and Sandler
FEEDBACK: Willetts, Dubs, Pickering, Bowker, Letwin, Woodhead
PAPERS: Lilley on liberty; Pollard on public-service reform;
Bradley & Taylor on school choice; Booth on health spending
SHOP: Executive toys from Adam Smith
BUT FIRST: Bismarck once said that anyone who likes laws or sausages should
never watch either being made. Think of that if the Sandler and Pickering
reviews of pensions ever get as far as legislation.
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MEETINGS: Aussie thinker discovered =8B in London!
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SANDLER REVIEW: Author of the government's report into long-term savings,
Ron Sandler, reviews his review at an ASI breakfast briefing this Friday, 1=
9
July. For information, contact events@adamsmith.org .
MUFFINS: Representatives from leading think-tanks and industry bodies
munched muffins, dosed up on coffee, and reviewed public-policy issues at
the first of the ASI's regular keep-in-touch sessions on 18 July. For more
information, contact events@adamsmith.org .
MEDIA BILL: David Elstein, Chair of the British Screen Advisory Council and
lately Chief Executive of Channel 5, launches a few choice words on the UK
media scene to the ASI Power Lunch on Wednesday 24 July. For information an=
d
invitations, contact events@adamsmith.org .
OZ ECONOMY: Leading Australian think-tanker Des Moore, head of the Institut=
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for Public Affairs in Melbourne, joins the Adam Smith Institute for a Power
Lunch on Friday 19 July and tells us how Australia managed its remarkable
economic recovery in recent years. For information and invitations, contact
events@adamsmith.org .
THE EDUCATION BUSINESS: Gaynor McCown, Vice-President of Edison Education =8B
the free-enterprise schools manager in the United States =8B reviews whether
the model could help achieve Estelle Morris's ambitions for schools at an
Adam Smith Power Lunch on Wednesday 31 July. Contact events@adamsmith.org .
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FEEDBACK: More influential ASI events
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It's been a busy couple of weeks. The Adam Smith Institute has held large
evening LECTURES with Shadow Home Secretary Oliver Letwin and former Chief
Inspector of Schools Chris Woodhead. You can find out what they said on the
Institute's website. To read Letwin's speech ahead of publication, go to:
www.adamsmith.org/cissues/letwin-speech-sustainability-and-society.htm and
for Woodhead go to: www.adamsmith.org/pdf/the-standards-of-today.pdf .
Among our POWER LUNCH guests we've had Shadow Welfare Secretary David
Willets, Media watchdog Lord Dubbs, and Rail supremo Richard Bowker. Not to
mention our special breakfast briefing with Alan Pickering, author of the
government review of pension simplification.
KEEP UP TO DATE: Keep abreast of what has happened by visiting our website
news page at http://www.adamsmith.org/policy/news/home.htm .
KEEP AHEAD: And keep ahead of what's about to happen at our forward diary
section http://www.adamsmith.org/policy/news/forward.htm .
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NEW PAPERS: Not like thieves in the night
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LILLEY ON LIBERTY: Former Cabinet Minister Peter Lilley has penned a
hard-hitting paper for ASI on the subject of how our ancient safeguards =8B
such as the right to jury trial =8B are being compromised. A worrying surge i=
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the power of the state, which could be abused, he says. Find the report on
the front page of http://www.adamsmith.org .
POLLARD ON PUBLIC SERVICES: Former Fabian Society bigwig and journalist
Stephen Pollard will argue in an ASI paper, Customers not Bureaucrats, that
all the public spending in the world won't produce better health or better
schools unless the whole system is freed up to local management and
entrepreneurship. For a sneak preview, visit the Comment box on the front
page of http://www.adamsmith.org .
COMPETITION IN SCHOOLS: Lancaster U profs Steve Bradley and Jim Taylor argu=
e
that the 1988 Education Act and league tables made schools much more
competitive =8B driving up exam results and improving patient choice. We need
more of the same =8B but with a new focus on raising standards in the very
poorest schools. It's published on Friday, so watch out for it on the front
page of http://www.adamsmith.org .
GIVE US BACK OUR HEALTH: City U prof Philip Booth argues that the state
should rebate a wodge of taxes to people who want to take the money and buy
their own healthcare. And he thinks they'd buy it more efficiently than the
bureaucrats in Whitehall and the local authorities. It's being published in
about ten days' time, but soon you'll be able to see it in advance at our
publications page http://www.adamsmith.org.uk/policy/publications/home.htm =
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SHOP! Executive stuff for Smith buffs
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NEW SHOP PAGE: We've added a new shop page to the website which details the
extensive range of Adam Smith toys we now have in stock. Neckties, braces
(suspenders), and mousemats for the Power executive; large and small busts
of the great economist to grace your desk or library. Lapel pins and
medallions bearing the great man's profile. How can you live without them?
Well, at least take a look: http://www.adamsmith.org.uk/shop/home.htm .
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AS ADAM HAD IT...
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"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interes=
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of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary
for promoting that of the consumer." (Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations,
Book IV Chapter VIII.)
Shouldn't this be a guiding principle for Gordon Brown's Spending Review?
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Dr Eamonn Butler
Adam Smith Institute, 23 Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3BL, UK
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