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Fourth edition. |
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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Occasional paper ; 131
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Occasional paper (Institute of Economic Affairs (Great Britain)) ; 131.
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The author; Foreword to the 3rd edition; Foreword to the 4th edition; 1How to move a nation; (Reason, February 1987); 2Waging the war of ideas: why there are no shortcuts; (The Heritage Lectures, no. 254, at the Heritage Foundation, 14 November 1989); 3No Antony Fisher, no IEA: The Case for Freedom after 50 years; (Economic Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 3, September 1998); 4Hayek and the second-hand dealers in ideas; (Introduction to The Intellectuals and Socialism, IEA, Rediscovered Riches no. 4, October 1998); 5The power of ideas. |
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(Economic Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 4, December 1998: review of three books on the influence of institutes and ideas)6The right use of ideas; (Daily Telegraph, 1 March 1999); 7More on the power of ideas; (Economic Affairs, Vol. 19, No. 3, September 1999; review of four books on institutes and the direction of government policy); 8Hayek, Fisher and The Road to Serfdom; (Introduction to Reader's Digest condensed version of The Road to Serfdom, IEA, Rediscovered Riches no. 5, November 1999; reissued as IEA, Occasional Paper 122, October 2001, reprinted April 2003). |
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9Foreword to The Representation of Business in English Literature(IEA, Readings 53, October 2000); 10Foreword to A Conversation with Harris and Seldon; (IEA, Occasional Paper 116, May 2001); 11Just in Time: Inside the Thatcher Revolution; (Economic Affairs, Vol. 21, No. 2, June 2000: review of Just in Time: Inside the Thatcher Revolution, by John Hoskyns, London, Aurum Press, 2000); 12The Hoover Institution. |
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(Economic Affairs, Vol. 22, No. 1, March 2002: review of The Competition of Ideas: How My Colleagues and I Built the Hoover Institution, by W. Glenn Campbell, Illinois, Jameson Books, Inc., 2001)13On Milton Friedman's 90th birthday we still need his remedy; (Daily Telegraph, 30 July 2002); 14The achievements of Peter Bauer; (IEA, Occasional Paper 128, September 2002); 15Beyond ideology: towards the demise of the state and the coming era of consumer politics; (Scotsman, 17 March 2003); 16Looking back at the condensed version of The Road to Serfdom after 60 years. |
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(Economic Affairs, Vol. 24, No. 1, March 2004)17Lessons of the past fifty years show we need to create a freemarket utopia; (Daily Telegraph, 7 March 2005); 18A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America; (Economic Affairs, Vol. 26, No. 2, June 2006: review of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America, by John J. Miller, San Francisco, Encounter Books, 2006); 19Tribute to Lord Harris of High Cross and Dr Arthur Seldon CBE; (Speech to a meeting of the members of the Mont Pélerin Society, Guatemala City, 9 November 2006). |
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20John Blundell -- an obituary. |
| Summary |
This paper discusses how wars of ideas can be waged, using the author's extensive experience, both as director general of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) and at other classical liberal think tanks. John Blundell begins his stimulating collection of published essays, reviews and introductions by showing how the founders of the IEA successfully fought the conventional planning wisdom of the 1960s and 1970s, providing the ideas which, by the 1980s and 1990s, had brought about increased freedom and a revival in the use of markets. He draws lessons from those days and then surveys the conte. |
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Institute of Economic Affairs (Great Britain)
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Institute of Economic Affairs (Great Britain) |
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Economic policy.
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Economic policy. |
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Free enterprise.
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Free enterprise. |
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Great Britain -- Economic policy.
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Great Britain. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. |
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Print version: Blundell, John. Waging the War of Ideas. London : London Publishing Partnership, ©2015 9780255366847 |
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9780255366854 (electronic book) |
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025536685X (electronic book) |
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9780255367004 (electronic book) |
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0255367007 (electronic book) |
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9780255366847 |
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