The State is rolling back : - Hardcover

Series of brilliant and engaging essays examining the growing tension between the individual's yearning to be free and the politician's itch to regulate. Rising incomes and technological innovation enlarge the scope for freedom but the government intervenes with ever more regulations. Seldon, who led the UK's Institute of Economic Affairs or many years, wrote these essays for British newspapers over the course of a fifty year career fighting for individual freedom and the primacy of the free market. Witty, informative and refreshing. 326 pages with index.