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• Business ethics The new bottom line Showing why ethical confusions can be so costly to business, the author explains how firms can bring greater clarity and coherence to the ethical choices they and their employees make. Sheena Carmichael January 1995
• Modernising public appointments The authors set out detailed proposals for modernisation, introducing the best of modern business practice to the very different world of the public sector. John Viney Judith Osborne January 1995
• Easternisation The rise of Asian power and its impact on the west and on our own society The author argues that the West needs to learn from the success of East Asian societies not only in industry but also in education and welfare. David Howell January 1995
• Other invisible hand, The Remaking charity for the 21st century Argues that the laws and financial mechanisms which govern the world of charity are antiquated, cumbersome and inflexible, and makes the case for an historic new settlement to encourage voluntary action. Charles Landry Geoff Mulgan January 1995
• Taking tax out of politics Seven maxims for tax policy in the late 1990s The authors set out seven maxims to define tax policies in the years ahead, arguing in particular for widening the tax base and lowering rates. Douglas Hague Geoff Mulgan January 1995
• End of unemployment, The Bringing work to life This issue sets out a radical set of solutions to unemployment, covering everything from ‘employability’ to the role of the informal economy. Charles Leadbeater Geoff Mulgan January 1994
• Lean democracy The issue recommends a series of innovations in demo­cracy, ranging from referendums and citizens’ juries to new uses of communications technology. Andrew Adonis Charles Leadbeater January 1994
• Liberation technology? This issue sets out how communications technologies are transforming everything from the workplace to architecture and how policy makers need to respond. Daniel Sabbagh Geoff Mulgan January 1994
• Audit explosion, The Offers a comprehensive critique of the spread of auditing in both the public and private sectors and shows how to achieve a better balance between audits and other forms of accountability. Michael Power January 1994
• Alone again Ethics after certainty An account of why old ethical arguments no longer stand up and of how we should think about the new ethical landscape in which we live. January 1994

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