Richard Fenton-Smith
Blog posts in total 4
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Niall Ferguson: Reith Lecture pt.4 - Civil and Uncivil Societies
Editor's note: In the Reith Lecture this week, Niall Ferguson talked about Civil and Uncivil Societies . The programme is available to listen to online or to download and keep - PMcD ""Over the past 50 years governments have encroached too far on the realm of civil society," says Nial...
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Niall Ferguson: Reith Lecture pt.3 - The Landscape of the Law
Editor's note: In the Reith Lecture this week, Niall Ferguson talked about The Landscape of the Law. The programme is available to listen to online or to download and keep - PMcD "Some score members of the... bar... are mistily engaged in one of ten thousand stages of an endless cause,...
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Niall Ferguson: Reith Lecture pt.2 - The Dawinian Economy
Editor's note: In the Reith Lecture this week, Niall Ferguson talked about The Darwinian Economy. The programme is available to listen to online or to download and keep - PMcD There will always be greedy people around banks," says Niall Ferguson "after all they are where the money is -...
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Niall Ferguson: Reith Lecture pt.1 - The Human Hive
"Society is a contract… the state is a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are yet to be born." This quote from the 18th Century political theorist and philosopher Edmund Burke summarises much of the argument pu...