Contents Summary A free competitive market offers wide opportunities for individuals and businesses and is compatible with the framework of … Continue reading "Liberating the Labour Market" ...

Contents Foreword Studying economics especially at university can be a sterile and lifeless endeavour. In four out of five ...

Mandated employment benefits function as a ‘stealth payroll tax’ that ultimately reduce workers’ wages, not employers’ profits £5bn cost of new mandates in the Employment Rights Bill will be passed on ...

Chancellor Reeves tries to justify new taxes on farmers and others by insisting they will fund the NHS. So, once … Continue reading "The NHS remains a laggard despite record levels of funding" ...

I was recently watching the video “ Are Populists Destroying Democracy? ” on the IEA’s Youtube channel, in which the IEA’s Editorial Director Kristian Niemietz interviewed Swedish political scientist ...

Introduction Each year, the Government publishes international energy price comparisons. The data is sourced from the IEA and covers industrial … Continue reading "We’re number one… in unaffordable ...

Modified version of a table that appeared in a blog for the Center for Global Development12 ‘Robin Hood in reverse’ aid, whereby relatively rich regions of upper-middle-income countries receive ODA ...

New IEA research highlights the clear economic consensus that rent controls do far more harm than good.

Colonialism and the slave trade were, at best, minor factors in Britain’s prosperity and may have been net lossmakers. An … Continue reading "Empire and slavery did not make Britain rich, finds new ...

Many libertarians supported Brexit, believing it would reduce governmental layers and bring power closer to the British people. They saw … Continue reading "Why Brexit was a mistake, from a ...