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Encyclopedia > Centre for Policy Studies

The Centre for Policy Studies is a United Kingdom-based think tank. It was set up in 1970s by Margaret Thatcher and Keith Joseph, and espouses free-market and other monetarist policies. This article is about the institution. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... The Right Honourable Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925), is a British stateswoman and was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, also Leader of the Opposition from 1975, and the only woman to date to hold those positions. ... Keith Sinjohn Joseph, Bt, PC; Baron Joseph of Portsoken (January 17, 1918–December 10, 1994), was a British barrister, politician, and Conservative cabinet member under three different administrations. ... A free market is an idealized market system, where all economic decisions and actions by individuals regarding transfer of money, goods, and services are voluntary, and are therefore devoid of coercion and theft (some definitions of coercion are inclusive of theft). Colloquially and loosely, a free market economy is an...


People

  • Chairman: Lord Blackwell
  • Director: Ruth Lea
  • Editor: Tim Knox
  • Director of studies: Ed Howker
  • Assistant to the centre: Marie Jenkins
  • Secretary: Jenny Nicholson

Freelance journalist, former director of communications at the Centre for Policy Studies ...

External link

  • Centre for Policy Studies official site

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The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) is one of Britain’s best known and most respected think tanks.
The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) is independent of all political parties and special interest groups.
Its policy proposals are based on a set of core principles, including individual choice and responsibility, and the concepts of duty, family, liberty, and the rule of law.
centre for policy studies (8186 words)
Secondly, it notes, a recent study conducted by council researchers shows that hawkers often fall prey to exploitative practices and are victims of crimes such as mugging and theft.
Policies on labour migration need to straddle the divide between domestic and foreign policy, as well as state sovereignty and regional markets, and should be negotiated and formulated in a regional multilateral forum.
Studies commissioned by the dwaf promoted the concept of integrated catchment management, emphasising that hydrological catchments were natural units for both natural resource management and socio-economic planning.5 Although the concept was scientifically sound, it also brought major political obstacles with it.
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