Archive for Nicholas Elliott
A Crisis in the Making: Europes Welfare Burden
Mr. Elliott is a financial journalist in London, England. Europe’s welfare states face a profound crisis because aging populations mean growing numbers of benefit recipients and dwindling numbers of taxpayers to fund the entitlements. Prolonged recession has highlighted these dangers as high unemployment has meant higher welfare payouts and reduced tax revenues. As a result, [...]
1Sep1994 | Nicholas Elliott | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Adam Smith And Modern Economics: From Market Behavior To Public Choice by Edwin G. West
Gower Publishing Company, Old Post Road, Brookfield, VT 05036 • 1990 * 256 pages * $47.95 cloth Despite being widely described as the “father of modern economics,” Adam Smith is given cursory mention by most modern economists and is only regarded as important for his 18th-century insights. Readers will put down West’s book with a [...]
1Mar1992 | Nicholas Elliott | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Growth of Privatized Policing
Nicholas Elliott is a financial journalist in London, and an associate scholar of the Adam Smith Institute. Privatized police! The suggestion is usually met with disbelief, even by free-marketeers who would like most other government services shifted into the private sector. But there are good arguments to justify privatization of at least some policing functions, [...]
1Feb1991 | Nicholas Elliott | 4 comments | ContinuedTo Further Free Trade Principles: Origins of The Economist
Nicholas Elliott is a financial journalist in London, and an associate scholar of the Adam Smith Institute. “Can there be a sufficient number of readers with intelligence to appreciate it found to make such a paper pay?” asked the free-trader Richard Cobden when The Economist was launched in 1843. The journal had been founded by [...]
1Jan1991 | Nicholas Elliott | 0 comments | ContinuedReaders Forum
To the Editors: Robert James Bidinotto (The Freeman, September 1989) is too hasty in dismissing prison work programs. They don’t reduce recidivism, and they can be used to mount prisoner escapes, he argues. Faced with rising prison costs and problems with prisoner idleness, many states have looked to prison work as a solution. Fifteen American [...]
1Jan1990 | Nicholas Elliott | 13 comments | ContinuedPrivatization in Northern IrelandMaking Politics Normal
Nick Elliott is a British free-lance writer and press consultant. For most of us, party politics may be a dubious blessing, but for Northern Ireland it seems to be just what is needed. While in mainland Britain, strenuous debates have been fought about government intervention in the economy, Northern Ireland has been excluded. Not only [...]
1Sep1989 | Nicholas Elliott | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Levelers: Libertarian Revolutionaries
Mr. Elliott works for the Adam Smith Institute, a free-market think tank in London. He is a regular contributor to the journal Economic Affairs, published by the Institute of Economic Affairs. Among students of intellectual history, the revolutions in the United States (1776), France (1789), and Russia (1917) attract most interest as being the result [...]
1May1989 | Nicholas Elliott | 0 comments | Continued1992: Which Vision for Europe?
Mr. Elliott works for the Adam Smith Institute, a free-market think tank in London. He is a regular contributor to the journal Economic Affairs, published by the Institute of Economic Affairs. Should we look forward to 1992 or view it with trepidation? This is the question in the minds of the many onlookers, inside and [...]
1Mar1989 | Nicholas Elliott | 0 comments | ContinuedIslamic Capitalism: The Turkish Boom
Mr. Elliott works for the Adam Smith Institute, a free-market think tank in London. He is a regular contributor to the journal Economic Affairs, published by the institute of Economic Affairs. Once dismissed as the “sick man of Europe,” Turkey is now building a prosperous future. The Turkish economy has been growing at a faster [...]
1Feb1989 | Nicholas Elliott | 0 comments | ContinuedJohn Bright: Voice of Victorian Liberalism
Mr. Elliott resides in England. A graduate of the University of York, he is a regular contributor to the Journal of Economic Affairs, published by the Institute of Economic Affairs. John Bright did more than anyone else to bring about the great advances for liberty in nineteenth-century Britain. A leading orator and agitator, he was [...]
1Aug1988 | Nicholas Elliott | 1 comment | ContinuedLiberty in Great Britain: The Present and the Future
Mr. Elliott resides in England and is’ a graduate of the University of York. He is a regular contributor to the journal Economic Affairs, published by the Institute of Economic Affairs. In Great Britain, liberty is making a strong run in the competition of ideas. Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government has given a public face to [...]
1Jun1988 | Nicholas Elliott | 0 comments | Continued-
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