Books from London Publishing Partnership

Universal Healthcare without the NHS: Towards a Patient-Centred Health System
By Kristian Niemietz
This book argues that the NHS should not be insulated from reasoned debate. In terms of health outcomes, it is one of the worst systems in the developed world, well behind those of other high-income countries.
How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take to Change the World?
By Stephen Davies, Matt Ridley
In How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take to Change the World? Ridley examines the nature of innovation – and how people often fear its consequences.
Top Dogs and Fat Cats: The Debate on High Pay
By J. R. Shackleton
This collection of essays puts various aspects of this debate under the spotlight.
Classical Liberalism – A Primer
By Eamonn Butler
This primer aims to provide a straightforward introduction to the principles, personalities and key developments in classical liberalism.
Why Study Mathematics?
By Vicky Neale
Wondering whether a mathematics degree will get you a good job, and what you might earn? Want to know what it's actually like to study mathematics at degree level? This book tells you what you need to know.
Forever Contemporary: The Economics of Ronald Coase
By Cento Veljanovski
Tomorrow. 3.0: rent. or. own? We have the good (or bad?) luck to be alive at the beginning of the third great human entrepreneurial ... enabled the factory production line 189 CoASE AND THE 'SHARING ECoNoMY' Tomorrow 3.0: rent or own?
School of Thought: 101 Great Liberal Thinkers
By Eamonn Butler
Award-winning author Eamonn Butler outlines key elements of liberal thought and takes a chronological look at those who shaped it across the centuries.
China, Trade and Power: Why the West’s Economic Engagement Has Failed
By Stewart Paterson
This book tells the story of the most successful trading nation of the early twenty-first century.
The Currency Cold War: Cash and Cryptography, Hash Rates and Hegemony
By David Birch
This book contributes to the debate that we must have to shape the International Monetary and Financial System of the near future.
Britain’s Cities, Britain’s Future
By Mike Emmerich
Yet it is cities that are fuelling economic growth around the world. Mike Emmerich looks at the DNA of cities and how it expresses itself in their institutions, governance, public services, religion and culture.
Policy Stability and Economic Growth – Lessons from the Great Recession: Lessons from the Great Recession
By John B. Taylor
... ISBN 978-0-255-36681-6; £12.50 Flaws and Ceilings – Price Controls and the Damage They Cause Edited by Christopher Coyne and Rachel Coyne Hobart Paperback 179; ISBN 978-0-255-36701-1; £12.50 Scandinavian Unexceptionalism: Culture ...
Facing Up to Climate Reality: Honesty, Disaster and Hope
By John Foster
later adaptation is considerably reduced in comparison to the costs of mitigation now, measured the same way—because ... As we mentioned earlier, the hard truth is that one key reason why collectively we are unwilling to face up to the ...
An Introduction to Entrepreneurship
By Eamonn Butler
Or that Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson and IKEA founder Ingvar Kampgrad never went to university at all? An introduction to Entrepreneurship spotlights the strengths of entrepreneurship, whilst acknowledging its shortcomings.
Driverless Cars: On a Road to Nowhere?
By Christian Wolmar
Wolmar's entertaining polemic sets out the many technical, legal and moral problems that obstruct the path to a driverless future, and debunks many of the myths around that future's purported benefits.
A Better Politics: How Government Can Make Us Happier
By Danny Dorling
The aim of this book is to inspire a better politics: one that will enable future generations to be happier.
Raising the Roof: How to Solve the United Kingdom's Housing Crisis
By Ben Clements, Charles Shaw, William Watts
... raise prices (Niemietz 2016). This is also selfdefeating, and another policy that has made the housing crisis worse. These government initiatives and 'big push' tactics all have one thing in common: they do ... RAISING THE ROOF _Hlk14782923.
Working to Rule: The Damaging Economics of UK Employment Regulation
By J. R. Shackleton
This book combines a history of employment laws with detailed analysis of the troublesome effects of various interventions. The author argues for a fundamental rethink.
Sea Change: How Markets and Property Rights Could Transform the Fishing Industry
By Paul Dragos Aligica, H. Sterling Burnett, Rachel Tingle
State intervention has created significant overcapacity in the industry and undermined the economic feedback mechanisms that help to protect stocks. This short book sets out a range of policy options to improve outcomes.
Are Trams Socialist?: Why Britain Has No Transport Policy
By Christian Wolmar
... Croydon Tramlink, in 2000, and so far, if the historic Blackpool system (which has now been given new rolling stock) is included, eight urban areas can now boast systems. The latest one is in Edinburgh, where the massive cost overruns ...