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IN THIS BULLETIN:
BIRTHDAY: Milton Friedman is 90
EVENTS: Labour fringe meeting and other events
YOOF: Our Next Generation Group schedule
AGE: Reports on our meetings with Sandler and Pickering
REPORTS: Health and freedom (sounds good, eh?)
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BIRTHDAY: Milton marks milestone
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Professor MILTON FRIEDMAN, arch-monetarist, doyen of the Chicago School,
scourge of professional regulation and libertarian policy guru, celebrates
his 90th Birthday today. Congratulations to him and his wife Rose.
You can now read more about Friedman on the new 'Heroes' page of our
website. Go to http://www.adamsmith.org.uk/friedman/home.htm .
Q: How many Chicago School economists does it take to change a lightbulb?
(answer below)
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EVENTS: Can Gordo save the NHS?
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The Minister of State for Health, RT HON JOHN HUTTON MP, is the keynote
speaker at an Adam Smith Institute fringe meeting at the Labour Conference
in Blackpool on 2 October. Other speakers include ASI's MATTHEW YOUNG, SION
SIMON MP, and Patients Association boss MIKE STONE. Find news about this and
other events at http://www.adamsmith.org/policy/news/forward.htm .
Other personalities who'll be appearing at ASI events include:
August 28: MARK MACGREGOR, Chief Exec of the Tory Party
September 17: ANTHONY HILTON, Evening Standard City Editor
September 24: DAVID EDMONDS, CE of OFTEL
October 22-3: MIKE HODGKINSON, CE of BAA, TIM MATHTEWS, CE of the Highways
Agency, and others at our conference on Utility Infrastructure
November 6: DR LIAM FOX, Shadow Health Secretary.
November 12: MATT RIDLEY, author of 'The Human Genome'
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YOOF: Forward calendar of The Next Generation events
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TNG: Dates for the monthly meetings of the Adam Smith Institute's Next
Generation Group have now been set up to the end of 2003. They're normally
the first Tuesday of each month (except sometimes) and are open to people
under 30 who're interested in public policy debate. For more information
about the group, contact tng@adamsmith.org . Details of our mini-lecturers,
who include the new Shadow Transport Minister TIM COLLINS and BBC political
correspondent NICHOLAS JONES, will be announced on our forward diary page.
See: http://www.adamsmith.org/policy/news/forward.htm .
THE DATES ARE: 4 February 2003 1 July 2003
4 March 2003 1 September 2003
8 October 2002 1 April 2003 7 October 2003
5 November 2002 6 May 2003 4 November 2003
3 December 2002 3 June 2003 2 December 2003
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AGE: Before and after the savings reports
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AFTERWORDS: Institute has held briefing breakfasts with the authors of the
government's reports on pensions simplification and long-term savings, ALAN
PICKERING and RON SANDLER. You can read a report of the Pickering discussion
at http://www.adamsmith.org/cissues/pickering-briefing.htm and of the
Sandler meeting at http://www.adamsmith.org/cissues/sandler-briefing.htm .
We have also prepared a useful summary of the Sandler report at
http://www.adamsmith.org/cissues/sandler-summary.htm .
FOREWORDS: Many of the key proposals of the Sandler report are actually
anticipated in an Adam Smith report two years ago by SIMON READ, called
Competition or Regulation. It suggested simpler products, regulating the
products not the sales process, low charges and much else. You can read the
report at http://www.adamsmith.org.uk/policy/publications/cat-all.htm .
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NEW REPORTS: Health and freedom
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GETTING BACK YOUR HEALTH: People in good health should be able to get part
of their taxes back and take the money to a private health insurer or
company health plan, according to actuary and City University professor
PHILIP BOOTH in a new report for ASI. This would give patients better
choice, driving down costs and driving up customer-focus and standards. Find
the report on our front page, http://www.adamsmith.org .
TAKING LIBERTIES: Four fundamental pillars of freedom, jury trial, Double
Jeopardy, Presumption of Innocence, and Habeas Corpus, are threatened by an
unprecedented alliance between populism (to sound tough on crime) and
modernizing zeal. The net result will be to make the British people more
vulnerable than ever to arbitrary action by the State. That's the thrust of
a new ASI paper by former cabinet minister PETER LILLEY. You can read the
report at http://www.adamsmith.org.uk/policy/publications/cat-all.htm .
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LIGHTBULB:
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A: None. If the lightbulb needed changing, the market would have done it
already.
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Dr Eamonn Butler
Adam Smith Institute, 23 Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3BL, UK
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