"This article discusses the achievements of Arthur Seldon as Editorial Director of the IEA in the context of the recently published "Collected Works of Arthur Seldon. Copyright (c) Institute of Economic Affairs 2005. Published by Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.

Privatisation was clearly the most significant change in Britain’s industrial policy since nationalisation. The privatisation and liberalising moves of the late 1980s had a big impact on the energy industries since they included two large energy utilities. But how important were the change in...

Suggests that both future supplies of, and the future demand for, North Sea Gas are highly uncertain. Gives examples to show that one can argue, with equal plausibility, that in the 1970s there could be either a significant shortage, or a substantial surplus of capacity relative to ‘premium’...

FORECASTING is not just a specialized management technique, but something which we all understand and do quite naturally. Because of the existence of time, all of us run our lives by making forecasts. In the present (which is an infinitesimally short period of time) we have to make forecasts of...