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  • This, despite a recent study by Patrick Minford at Cardiff University showing that government spending to improve productivity has no effect on growth—though the taxes required to finance those measures are a very serious impediment to growth.

    Manufacturing a British Economy Philip Booth 2011

  • Its academic advisory council is a who's who of the proponents of discredited Thatcherite policies: Eamonn Butler and Marsden Pirie of the Adam Smith Institute, academics Patrick Minford and Kenneth Minogue, Margaret Thatcher's former economic advisor Sir Alan Walters, and others such as ex-Institute of Directors policy head Ruth Lea.

    Wolves in sheep's clothing 2009

  • Its academic advisory council is a who's who of the proponents of discredited Thatcherite policies: Eamonn Butler and Marsden Pirie of the Adam Smith Institute, academics Patrick Minford and Kenneth Minogue, Margaret Thatcher's former economic advisor Sir Alan Walters, and others such as ex-Institute of Directors policy head Ruth Lea.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • The Sunday Times says that when MT was asked to publicly name two economists who supported her policies she said Patrick Minford and Alan Walters.

    To Margaret Thatcher: An Apology 2006

  • It's either Mentor or Minford high school's basketball team from 1913, and I love it for the two guys at bottom right.

    go commonwealth rams! 2007

  • In November, we reported how the EU commission in its annual report on competitiveness, estimated that "red tape" was costing the EU economies some 12 percent of GDP, four times the amount of which Minford complains.

    An air of unreality Richard 2005

  • This is the 1913 team of either Mentor or Minford high school in Southern Ohio (even though Minford says their first team was in 1923, I think they might be wrong).

    6/30/03 Brooklyn, NY A few 2003

  • This is the 1913 team of either Mentor or Minford high school in Southern Ohio (even though Minford says their first team was in 1923, I think they might be wrong).

    6/7/03 Columbia County, NY Not 2003

  • One of his officers was Lieutenant Worrall (the name spelled Worriss by Clark); another was named Milford (Minford, in Clark).

    Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

  • St. Simon's Church, in Minford Gardens, is an ugly red-brick building with ornamental facings of red brick, and a high steeple of the same materials.

    Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London John Cunningham Geikie 1865

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