The paper outlines some of the key developments that have occurred in the British motor vehicle components industry during the 1980s. The first part examines the parameters of aggregate decline in terms of employment, output, investment, and trade performance, and attempts to explain why the car...

Lomborg's best-selling attempt to demolish environmental concerns has been praised by the "Economist" and the "Financial Times", in stark contrast to the reactions of environmental scientists. We show in detail here how Lomborg selects statistics to support his optimistic views, and...

This paper tests whether the liberalization of divorce law or economic factors can explain the postwar growth of divorce rates in Great Britain. Timing differences regarding the dates of legal innovations in England and Wales relative to Scotland are exploited to test for divorce law effects....