Dr Eamonn Butler is director of the Adam Smith Institute, which has just published his paper Re-Booting Government, and he is author of The Alternative Manifesto (Gibson Square 2010). (1) I was delighted to see David Cameron telling us the budget cuts would be extensive and painful – not because I’m a spending sadist, but […]
Dr Eamonn Butler is director of the Adam Smith Institute and author of The Alternative Manifesto: A 12-Step Programme to Remake Britain, which was published last week. A strike by two million people against the Greek Government’s ‘austerity’ package – weak as it is – must make David Cameron doubt the wisdom of mentioning any […]
Dr Eamonn Butler is director of the Adam Smith Institute and author of The Rotten State of Britain, which is published on Tuesday by Gibson Square Books. The book offers a damning account of what the successive Labour Governments have done to Britain over the last twelve years and here he looks in particular at […]
Sir Alan Walters, economic adviser to Margaret Thatcher and leading monetarist, has died at the age of 82. Eamonn Butler, Director of the Adam Smith Institute – a pro-freedom policy think-tank based in London, pays tribute to him below. Walters was a testament to Thatcherite self-help. His education was disrupted by army service, but he […]
Dr Eamonn Butler, Director of the Adam Smith Institute, offers a synopsis of his forthcoming book The Best Book in the Market. ‘Market’ was the sixth word I ever learnt – after ‘This little piggy goes to…’ But I learnt first hand about the market as I watched my father serving customers at his car […]
Dr Eamonn Butler is director of the Adam Smith Institute and author of The Rotten State of Britain. I can’t decide whether David Cameron’s new Big Society idea could become a Big Disappointment or a Big Bully. Right now, nobody quite knows if the idea is anything more than a damp Steve Hilton marketing squib. […]