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Capital

Mehr Schröder und Rudd, weniger Lafontaine und Dunwoody

24/07/2008
Von Karl Marx wussten die Sozialisten, dass sich Geschichte zweimal ereignet: das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce. Heutige Sozialdemokraten können hingegen erleben, wie sich die Geschichte gleich mehrfach und an unterschiedlichen Orten wiederholt. Wie viel davon Tragödie und wie viel Farce ist, steht auf einem anderen Blatt.

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Research reports

Paying for Success – How to make contracting out work in employment services

14/04/2008
Policy Exchange commissioned research about five countries that have reformed the way in which they provide employment services to jobseekers: Australia, the United States (Wisconsin), Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. These countries are most frequently mentioned in welfare reform debates. Their experiences are assessed with regard to the lessons they hold for the UK by former Secretary of State for Social Security, Peter Lilley MP.

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Inside Politics

She’ll be right, mate.

30/11/2007
What do you do with a government that has created two million new jobs? That has halved inflation? Under which real wages went up 20 per cent? Which cut the national tax burden? Under which exports doubled? Kick it out. So said the Australian electorate last weekend.

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Research reports

Bigger Better Faster More – Why some countries plan better than others

14/09/2005
Following the success of Unaffordable Housing – Fables and Myths, which exposed the failings of Britain’s centrally planned system of development, Alan W. Evans and Oliver Marc Hartwich went on a journey in search of alternatives.
Interviewing planners, politicians, real estate agents and academics in four countries – Germany, Switzerland, Ireland and Australia – they uncovered how other countries succeed, and sometimes fail, to give people the housing they want.

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