Our declaration of purpose
Promote liberty, enlightened Western liberal democracy and open & competitive markets
Enhance public policy-making & delivery of programmes and services by the state
Renew political economy and improve its empirical content and policy focus
Assist public & private decision-makers to anticipate more reliably the future and parameters of prospective uncertainty
Western liberal democracy faces multiple imminent threats both from within and without.
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Italy
China
Qatar & UAE
Alternatif für Deutschland
Alice Weidel, Tino Chrupalla
co-leaders AfD
Austria
FPO
Herbert Kickl
Poland
PiS
Jarosław Kaczyński
These conditions, including, particularly, reaction to successive waves of extra-European and intra-European migration, have provided substantial electoral opportunities for reactionist demogogues to form or take over populist, nativist political paties which have attracted increasing electoral support.
Iran
Turkey
And from within . . .
Decline in legitimacy of free trade, globalisation and the Western, liberal democratic order
Endogenous pressures from mounting economic contradictions, growing inequality and discontentment among voters and faltering economic performance in the major economies of the West, contrasting what are perceived to better-performing autocratically controlled managed economies, especially China. And the cumulative effect of economic, migrationary and emerging environmental crises — seemingly perpetual ‘polycrisis’
The return to European politics of populist and nativist parties and populist, demagogic leaders
Fratelli d’Italia
Giorgia Meloni, PM
Germany
France
Rassemblement National
Marine Le Pen, Jordan Bardella
Netherlands
VVP
Geert Wilders
Hungary
Fidesz
Victor Orban PM
UK
Reform
Nigel Farage
But what does that all mean?
Promote liberty, enlightened Western liberal democracy and open & competitive markets
Enhance public policy-making & effectiveness & efficiency of delivery of programmes and services by the state
To assist public and private policy makers to anticipate more reliably the future by incorporating analysis of scientific & technological developments, patterns and constraints of social & institutional change and of uncertainty and the causes of uncertainty in to forecasting & prognostication.
To propose & promote public policies which will realise those aims of liberty, (positive and negative) freedom, efficient operation of free and open markets, economically efficient regulation by government and effective & efficient provision of defence, security, justice, public order and those services delivered by the state;
Renew political economy and improve its empirical content and policy focus
Assist public & private decision-makers to anticipate more reliably the future and parameters of prospective uncertainty
To promote a realist & renewed political economy that will serve better to inform public policy-making than current, idealised, mathematically-tractable models of economic behaviour.
To assist public and private policy makers to anticipate more reliably the future by incorporating analysis of scientific & technological developments, patterns and constraints of social & institutional change and of uncertainty and the causes of uncertainty in to forecasting & prognostication.