of the Conservative party, especially Enoch Powell, Sir Keith Joseph, and Margaret Thatcher. Public Choice Theory analysed the relations between the State and voluntary activity. He organised a conference in 1978 called "Economics in Britain" – the American economist James Buchanan, founder of Public Choice was invited. In 1980 Seldon founded the IEA's "Economic Journal". Seldon gained a reputation as an exceptionally competent editor. He would, according to Ralph Harris, re-write poor pamphlets to such an extent as to almost become its co-author. In "Vote Motive" he found a voice that was most profound and influential, shaping the post-modern ethos for electioneering and party politics. Seldon won the Fisher Arts Literary Prize in 1991, although it was established by the founder of IEA, so nobody minded the eternal paradox, for his book Capitalism. He received an honorary degree in 1999 from the University of Buckingham. Institute of Economic Affairs, Editorial Adviser, and later founder-president Mont Pelerin Society, vice-president Hayek Society, global advisory council Locke Institute, editorial director Arthur Seldon is the father of the historian Anthony Seldon. In the media Seldon's widow Marjorie was interviewed about his work at the IEA and the rise of Thatcherism for the 2006 BBC TV documentary series Tory! Tory! Tory!. Own writings All publications from 1956 with the IEA unless otherwise stated: The drift to the corporate state: a preliminary enquiry into the impact of war economy (Liberal Publication Dept, 1941) Hire Purchase in a Free Society (1958) Pensions for Prosperity Hobart Papers no.4 (1960) Your Pensions and You (1960) Agenda for a free society: Essays on Hayek's "The constitution of liberty" IEA (1961) Put and Take in Welfare (1963) Rebirth of Britain: A Symposium of Eighteen Essays, Pan Piper no. MP 72 (1964) A. and M. Seldon, "How welfare vouchers work" New Outlook 55, (June 1966) "The Case for Vouchers" (his speech to the Forum), New Outlook 58, (October 1966) "Liberal Controversy Simplified", New Outlook 63 (April 1967) "Universal or Selective Benefits", IEA Monograph no.8 (1967) The Great Pensions Swindle (1970) Charge (London, Temple Smith, 1977) Corrigible Capitalism, Incorrigible Socialism (1980) Wither the Welfare State (1981) Socialism Explained (1983) The New Right Enlightenment (1985) The Riddle of the Voucher (1986) The State is Rolling Back: Essays in Persuasion (London, 1994) "Christopher Muller" in M. Kandiah and A. Seldon (eds.), Ideas and Think Tanks in Contemporary Britain vol ? 1 (London, 1996) The Dilemma