Breaking Up is Hard to Do (ePub)

EU Membership (1996, revised 2001).

Philippe Legrain is a writer and thinker. A visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics’ European Institute, columnist for Project Syndicate, Foreign Policy and CapX, and independent consultant, he was economic adviser to the President of the European Commission and head of the team providing President Barroso with strategic policy advice from 2011 to 2014. He has also been special adviser to World Trade Organisation Director-General Mike Moore and trade and economics correspondent for The Economist. Philippe is the author of four critically acclaimed books. They include Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them, which was shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year 2007, and European Spring: Why Our Economies and Politics are in a Mess – And How to Put Them Right, which was one of the Financial Times’s Best Books of 2014.

David G. Mayes is Professor of Banking and Financial Institutions and Director of the New Zealand Governance Centre at the University of Auckland Business School. He is also Visiting Professor at the University of Buckingham. His main areas of research are the regulation and governance of the financial sector and financial firms, on which he has published widely. He has focused particularly on cross-border issues and on the process of closer integration, especially in Europe. He has worked extensively in and with central banks and financial regulatory authorities in many countries. He is an Editor of The Economic Journal, a Fellow of the Law and Economics Association of New Zealand and a member of the Australia and New Zealand Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee.

Kristian Niemietz is Head of Health and Welfare at the Institute of Economic Affairs. He studied Economics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Universidad de Salamanca, graduating in 2007 as Diplom-Volkswirt (MSc in Economics). He also studied Political Economy at King’s College London, graduating in 2013 with a PhD. During his postgraduate studies, Kristian taught Economics at King’s College London.

Gwythian Prins is Emeritus Research Professor at the London School of Economics, Visiting Research Professor and Visiting Professor of War Studies at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham, and was previously Fellow in History at Emmanuel College and University Lecturer in Politics, University of Cambridge. He is currently a member of the Strategy Advisory Panel of the Chief of the Defence Staff and a member of the Royal Marines Advisory Group.

After studying economics at the London School of Economics and Birkbeck College, Séan embarked on a career as a professional economist and in 1987 was appointed Chief Economist for the National Farmers Union. In 1995 he joined the Cranfield School of Management as a senior economics lecturer and was appointed MBA Director and Director of Graduate Admissions. Between 1995 and 2012 he was a government academic economic advisor on food and farming policy. Since retiring from Cranfield to concentrate on his consultancy, Séan Rickard Ltd., he has taken up a number of visiting lectureships and is a visiting research fellow at the Royal Institution. He continues to write and speak on food and farming matters.

Professor Martin Ricketts is Professor of Economic Organisation and was formerly Dean of the School of Humanities at the University of Buckingham. He is also Chairman of the IEA’s Academic Advisory Council. He has a DPhil from the University of York (1980) and was Research Economist at the Industrial Policy Group from 1970 to 1972 under the direction of John Jewkes. He was Research Fellow at the Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of York (1974–77). He has published in professional journals on the new institutional economics, the theory of the firm, entrepreneurship, public choice, aspects of public finance and housing policy, and has authored several books. He was Economic Director of the National Economic Development Office (1991–2).

After studying Economics and Economic History at the London School of Economics for his undergraduate and master’s degrees, Matthew Sinclair joined the TaxPayers’ Alliance. He became their Chief Executive and led major research projects including the 2020 Tax Commission – a joint project with the Institute of Directors investigating the potential for strategic tax reforms – and organised award-winning campaigns, such as the MashBeerTax campaign, on issues from energy prices to business rates. His work on climate policy has included reports on the EU Emissions Trading System, renewable energy subsidies and green taxes. During his time at the TaxPayers’ Alliance, he cemented his role as a key critic of the efficacy of UK climate policy by writing the book Let Them Eat Carbon, published by Biteback Publishing in 2011. He joined the economics consultancy Europe Economics in 2014.

Director of Lifestyle Economics at the IEA, Christopher Snowdon is the author of Selfishness, Greed and Capitalism, The Art of Suppression, The Spirit Level Delusion and Velvet Glove; Iron Fist. He has authored a number of IEA publications, including Sock Puppets, The Proof of the Pudding, The Crack Cocaine of Gambling, Alcohol and the Public Purse and Drinking, Fast and Slow.

Rachel Tingle is a visiting lecturer at the University of Buckingham, where, amongst other things, she teaches a course in the Economics of Europe. She has had a varied career as an economist and journalist, which has included working in the City; in economic consultancy; for a number of senior Conservative politicians; and in television, print and web journalism. For many years she specialised in writing about the interface between economics, politics and Christianity and has written hundreds of articles and two books in this area.

Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim, Germany, Roland Vaubel has a BA from the University of Oxford, an MA from Columbia University, New York, and a doctorate from the University of Kiel, Germany. He has been Professor of Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Visiting Professor of International Economics at the University of Chicago (Graduate School of Business). He is a member of the Advisory Council to the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. He is associate editor of the Review of International Organizations and a member of the editorial boards of the European Journal of Political Economy, Constitutional Political Economy and Cato Journal. He is also a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic Affairs.

Richard Wellings is Deputy Director, Academic and Research, at the Institute of Economic Affairs and Director of IEA Transport. He was educated at Oxford and the London School of Economics, completing a PhD on transport policy in 2004. He is the author, co-author or editor of several papers, books and reports, including Towards Better Transport (Policy Exchange 2008), Which Road Ahead – Government or Market? (IEA 2012), The High-Speed Gravy Train: Special Interests, Transport Policy and Government Spending (IEA 2013) and Seeing Red: Traffic Controls and the Economy (IEA 2016).

Geoffrey Wood is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Cass Business School in London and Emeritus Professor of Monetary Economics at the University of Buckingham. A graduate of Aberdeen and Essex Universities, he has worked in the Federal Reserve System and the Bank of England. Overseas he has advised several central banks and national treasuries. He is currently a director of an investment trust and an adviser to several financial institutions, two pension funds and the Treasury Select Committee of the House of Commons; he was also adviser to the Parliamentary Banking Commission until the Commission ceased to exist on the publication of its report. He has authored, co-authored or edited over forty books and has published over 100 academic papers. His fields of interest are monetary economics, monetary history and financial regulation.