Other Books by Eamonn

RT @iealondon: 🙌🙌🙌 Stamp duty: - Clogs up the market, stopping people from moving when they want or need to - This exacerbates the housin… 19 hours ago

I think we should have a second referendum: ask the citizens of the other 27 countries “Should we kick the Brits ou… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 19 hours ago

M Barnier says that the Chequers (as amended) deal is at odds with fundamental EU principles (he actually said 'Eur… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago

RT @s8mb: Netflix: £72/year, you can watch it on different TVs, largest content producer in the world, 7.5 million UK subs, totally optiona… 1 week ago

‘Twould be poignant if the Remain tactic of demanding a Commons vote was the one thing that gave us No Deal. 1 week ago

Is the rational Brexiteer strategy now to back Remain, stay in, wait for the Euro to collapse and for migration to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 week ago

A common rule book for the minority of manufactures we export to the EU would be fine. Common rules on all UK business activity wouldn’t. 2 weeks ago

Forthcoming Publications

Capitalism: A Primer
Institute of Economic Affairs, London

It is hard to find a book that explains, simply and fairly, what capitalism is, how it works, and its strengths and weaknesses. The very word ‘capitalism’ was coined as a term of abuse, and still today, most books on the subject remain hostile to it, or paint a distorted or confused picture of it. So common is this that even capitalism’s own supporters have trouble understanding what it is, and find themselves struggling to excuse the distorted versions rather than explain the reality. This short guide fills the gap, and outlines the subject of capitalism plainly and even-handedly.

101 Great Classical Liberal Thinkers
Institute of Economic Affairs, London

In a series of short introductions, this primer outlines the lives, work and ideas of 101 great thinkers, from ancient China, through classical Greece, to Enlightenment France and Britain, the American Revolution and subsequent centuries up to today. In the process, it identifies some of the main debates in classical liberalism and shows how—sometimes over a period of many centuries—different thinkers have added to them or re-focused them to make the principles of a free society relevant to their age.

Eamonn Butler