Chapter 1. Greed and Ignorance -- Chapter 2. What is an Economist? -- Chapter 3. The Economy and the Many Economies -- Chapter 4. Kinds of Advisers -- Chapter 5. The Scope and Methods of Economics -- Chapter 6. Excessive Inequality -- Chapter 7. Choosing an Economic Adviser -- Chapter 8....

This book presents an abstract discussion of social science, in a period when science in all forms is under attack, does little to inform the debate on its role and progress. Moreover, there is a strong and growing tendency for work that is far from scientific to go under the label of social...

This paper reviews the publicly stated motives for establishing the UK system for air traffic control as a public–private partnership in 2001, and the significance of this public–private partnership as an example for the reform of other systems. It examines the performance of the...

This paper is the first attempt to estimate the determinants of holiday-taking across several countries. To accomplish this a two-stage estimation procedure is employed which enables incongruous income categories to be transformed into a single income variable. It is found that in the mid-1980s...