Publications

The Istituto Bruno Leoni, our Italian partner, has produced an updated and revised Italian edition of the Stockholm Network's book, Breaking Down the Barriers. No al Protezionismo! looks at the problems of trade barriers across Europe from the Common Agricultural Policy to the problems of parallel trade in pharmaceuticals and the risk that Europe's precautionary attitudes to regulation will stifle innovation. The book includes a new preface by Italy's Defence Minister and leading free market thinker, Antonio Martino.

To order, please email: info@brunoleoni.com.

Free trade and globalisation are evil and exploitative. So claim anti-capitalist protesters all over the world. But is this really true? Is the market to blame? Or should activists really be fighting to eradicate the perverse incentives created by international agreements and European regulations? If we wish to help the poor in the developing world and raise living standards everywhere, should we place our faith in government action or in entrepreneurial activity?
Breaking down the barriers should be read by anyone with a desire to understand globalisation and the challenges it faces in the 21st century.

To order, please email info@stockholm-network.org

It was conceived with the best intentions. Yet the welfare state has gradually become an albatross around the neck of Western governments and their citizens. The safety net, designed as a temporary respite for the sick, elderly and unemployed, has come to be viewed as an ‘entitlement’ rather than as a helping hand in times of trouble. The consequence? Generations of long-term unemployed for whom work no longer seems possible, or even desirable, and European welfare budgets which consume ever greater proportions of national income.
Europe’s welfare burden sets out the case for reform and some possible strategies. It shows that there has never been a better time to get Europe working.

To order a copy, email info@stockholm-network.org

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