How Antony Fisher's Institute of Economic Affairs, the UK's original free-market think-tank, was founded in 1955, and the history of Ralph Harris and Arthur Seldon.
This part one of three BBC Series called "Tory! Tory! Tory! - Outsiders", explores the history of the people and their ideas behind what became known as Thatcherism, and how they changed the face of Britain. The film tells the story of those left in the political wilderness after World War Two, who saw the welfare state as the thin edge of a totalitarian wedge. At first they were seen as cranks, and their ideas - monetarism and a free market - as madness. But gradually they attracted supporters in the political mainstream. And when Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative party, they saw their champion.
(2013-02-22) BBC Business Daily, Global Food Prices. Highly successful investor Jim Rogers, author of 'Hot Commodities', debates factually inaccurate and economically illiterate campaigning journal...
Ludwig von Mises explaining that the benefits derived from production goods do not exclusively accrue to their owner (to the person who controls them in the narrow legal sense), but to the consumer...
Who says conservatives want small government? Conservative Rob Walgate (American Policy Roundtable) supports deploying government force to restrict the risk individuals may take with their own mone...