Policy Archives - PEP - Promoting Economic Pluralism https://economicpluralism.org/category/policy/ PEP is promoting economic pluralism in teaching, research and analysis to support better policy to tackle economic, social and environmental challenges Mon, 05 Nov 2018 07:42:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://economicpluralism.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-favicon-1-32x32.png Policy Archives - PEP - Promoting Economic Pluralism https://economicpluralism.org/category/policy/ 32 32 Competitive tendering makes no sense for solving complex problems. Are we stuck with it? https://economicpluralism.org/competitive-tendering-makes-no-sense-for-solving-complex-problems-are-we-stuck-with-it/ https://economicpluralism.org/competitive-tendering-makes-no-sense-for-solving-complex-problems-are-we-stuck-with-it/#respond Sun, 10 Dec 2017 07:23:03 +0000 https://economicpluralism.org/?p=2827 I have a problem. I don’t really understand it. This sort of problem has never been solved before. Yet I want you to tell me how you are going to go about solving it and at what cost. That seems like madness but it is every day life. It is called competitive tendering. It is … Continued

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]]> https://economicpluralism.org/competitive-tendering-makes-no-sense-for-solving-complex-problems-are-we-stuck-with-it/feed/ 0 Economic Pluralism isn’t a Right-Left thing, but maybe it is a matter of national security https://economicpluralism.org/economic-pluralism-isnt-a-right-left-thing-but-maybe-it-is-a-matter-of-national-security/ https://economicpluralism.org/economic-pluralism-isnt-a-right-left-thing-but-maybe-it-is-a-matter-of-national-security/#respond Mon, 14 Aug 2017 06:06:40 +0000 https://economicpluralism.org/?p=2821 It might be thought that anyone who criticises the prevailing economic orthodoxy and calls for other approaches to understanding economics must be left wing. They might also be supposed to be anti-markets. However, neither of these suppositions are necessarily true. One of the most famous cases in point is Margaret Thatcher’ favourite economist, Friedrich Hayek. … Continued

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