IPA Review- August 2014

Book Reviews


Peter Gregory

The Missing Foundation Of Development: Individual Rights

This article from the July 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Researcher at the IPA, Peter Gregory. The major contribution of William Easterly’s new book, The Tyranny of Experts, is simple and profound. For the poor, individual rights isn’t just the most effective path to development for poverty-stricken countries. No, for the poor, individual rights is development. Plenty
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Stephanie Forrest

The Christian Realisation Of Liberty

This article from the July 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Scholar with the IPA, Stephanie Forrest. Since at least the Enlightenment, it has been popular to regard the medieval period as a kind of ‘dark age’ that isn’t worth studying. After the collapse of Rome in the West in the fifth century AD, so the popular
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James Bolt

Why We Need A Coalition Of The Unwilling

This article from the July 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Researcher with the IPA, James Bolt. It has been 70 years since Friedrich Hayek released The Road to Serfdom, and despite his warnings, that is certainly the road that the West is travelling down. Governments are becoming larger and more people are becoming dependent on the state
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Kyle Kutasi

The Answer To Broken Government Can’t Be More Government

This article from the July 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Perth based writer, Kyle Kutasi. In February 2011 in a little place named Franklin Township, New Jersey, a tree fell into a creek and caused a flood. It took twelve days and a $12,000 permit to get environmental approval to pull the tree out of the creek,
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Richard Allsop

The Colonialist Charge

This article from the July 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow at the IPA, Richard Allsop. English historian Catherine Hall had a specific political purpose in writing this book. In the aftermath of 9/11, she strongly opposed the Blair Government’s decision to participate in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and was particularly ‘horrified by the claim
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