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Institute of Economic Affairs Wrapped 2025

How the UK Is Blocking Its Own Growth (And How to Fix It) | Shanker Singham | IEA Podcast

Does Britain need a wealth tax?

Britain's Growth Crisis: The Model That Explains Everything | Patrick Minford

Stop Taxing Christmas: How the Nanny State Ruined Mince Pies | IEA Briefing

The IEA Reading List 2025

Inside Labour's Economic Strategy: Supply-Side Vision & Political Reality | IEA Interview

2025 Year in Review: Thank You to Our Supporters

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Special 2025: Year in Review | IEA Podcast

Does neoliberalism exist?

The Shocking History of Wealth Taxes

The UK's £20 Billion Budget Gamble Explained | IEA Interview

The Price of Net Zero

Trump vs Europe, Brexit Customs Debate & The Welfare Reform Challenge | IEA Podcast

Book review: "The Laissez-Faire Experiment" by W. Walker Hanlon

AI Won't Save Socialism | Prof Peter Boettke | IEA Interview

Ideas for Civil Service reform from the inside

Wealth Tax Debates

Debunking Wealth Inequality & Britain's Planning Crisis | IEA Podcast

Spontaneous Order: Analysis and Implications

From Gold Standard To Bitcoin: How Money Changed Forever | Dominic Frisby | IEA Interview

False consciousness revisited

Future of the American Right | Grover Norquist | IEA Interview

Remember the good old days?

Labour's Budget: Britain's Highest EVER Tax Burden | IEA Podcast

Book review: "A Brief History of Equality" by Thomas Piketty (2022)

Lord Frost: "The Government Kicked the Country in the Teeth"

The Chancellor has given up on growth

The alternative to the wealth tax

INVITATION: After the Budget - Where Will the Growth Come From?

WHO Woes & Pre-Budget Jitters

Budget 2025 Forecast: Why Rachel Reeves' Tax Plan Will Backfire

2025 Budget Briefing Tax Policy Preview – Options and Possible Impacts

The 70% Tax Trap: The Government's Toxic Budget Predictions Revealed | IEA Podcast

2025 Budget Briefing: The Fiscal Context

Free Speech is Not Right or Left | Jacob Mchangama | IEA Podcast

The Truth About Scandinavian "Socialism" | IEA Interview

The Welfare State Myth

NHS waiting lists: why it’s even worse than it looks

What is Scarcity? Episode 2 | Economics 101

Doctor Strike Saga

Trump Sues BBC, Labour Reverses Course Again & Ed Miliband's Nuclear Gamble | IEA Podcast

2025 Policy Conference

Building Brexit: Inside Vote Leave with Campaign Director Lord Matthew Elliott

The Residential-Property Tax Trap

Britain Has Changed Forever: Lessons from 1945 | Kit Kowol | IEA Live

Have we forgotten the lessons of Berlin?

Berlin Wall Fell — But Socialism Didn’t

Why Britain's Economy Is Broken - Incoming IEA Director General Lord David Frost | IEA Interview

Britain's Budget Crisis: Why Tax Increases Are Inevitable | IEA Podcast

Debunking Economic Myths with Professor Donald Boudreaux | IEA Interview

Why Socialism Doesn't Work | Rise & Fall of the Soviet Economy

A prosperous future for Nepal?

Freedom or Welfare State? Deirdre McCloskey on the Liberal Choice | IEA Interview

The Afuera Approach

Why Landlords Are Fleeing The UK Market | IEA Podcast

British ¡Afuera! #1 - NHS and National Pay Scales

Britain's Demographic Future: The Fertility Gap

Mind the Fertility Gap

INVITATION: After the Budget - Where Will the Growth Come From?

Argentina's Economic Revolution: Milei Wins

Introducing: British ¡Afuera!

The Policies No One Voted For: The Nanny State Disaster

Time for a bold budget

Brexit, Wealth Taxes and Housing: What's Really Going Wrong in Britain? | IEA Podcast

What has happened to Britain's economic freedom?

Can We Build a Culture of Opportunity? Lessons from America - Ep 4 - Land of Opportunity

30 People Arrested Daily for Speech Crimes in the UK | Toby Young

Britain’s bonsai tree economy

The Great British Exodus: Wealth Creators Abandoning the UK

Labour Market Malaise

Why Wealth Taxes Don't Work | IEA Podcast

EDI Nation

How Do Americans Really Feel About Taxes and Success? - Ep 3 - Land of Opportunity

Has the Government Killed the Jobs Market? | Economy Explained

Market Economies Through History: Why They Rise and Fall | IEA Interviews

Is the wealth tax a left-wing idea?

Abolish Stamp Duty?

Kemi Badenoch's Big Gamble: Can Scrapping Stamp Duty Save the Tories? | IEA Podcast

What Are The Economics Behind the American Dream? - Ep 2 - Land of Opportunity

The Great Depression: Did the New Deal Fail? | George Selgin | IEA Live

Growth Amnesia

Breaking Down Rachel Reeves's Confused Conference Speech | IEA Podcast

How Did America's Economy CRUSH Europe Since 2008? - Ep 1 - Land of Opportunity

The space economy will not succeed without private ownership

The Welfare Trap Destroying Britain | Fraser Nelson & Danny Kruger Reform MP | IEA Live

Brit Cards

Why Government Spending Never Goes Down | IEA Podcast

Why the socialist Left and the populist Right are talking past each other

Why America's POOREST State is Richer Than Britain | Land of Opportunity Series

Carbon Taxes, Not Magic Bullets

How to Fix Britain | John Penrose | IEA Interview

Trump goes nuclear

Britain's £36bn Black Hole | IEA Podcast

Why Every British Adult is Now in a Class Action Lawsuit | IEA Briefing

Class Act

Nobel Prize Economist: Why Institutions Matter | IEA Interview

IEA at Conservative Party Conference 2025

The revival of the Marxist “False Consciousness” thesis, and its shortcomings

Why China's Economy is Failing | Ian Williams | IEA Interview

No Growth, No Surprise

The Splintering of British Politics: Left and Right in Crisis

INVITATION: False Dawn - the New Deal and America’s Recovery from the Great Depression

Rory Sutherland on Wealth Inequality, Housing Crisis & Economic Solutions | IEA Podcast

Book review: "Build, Baby, Build" by Bryan Caplan

Nigeria's path to prosperity

The Real Cost of China's Communist Economy | Mary Kissel | IEA Interview

Not-so free speech

Is Britain Really Going Broke? The Truth About Our 'Fiscal Crisis' | IEA Podcast

Ideas for Pension Reform

Britain Blackout: Can Renewables Keep the Lights On? | Kathryn Porter | Free the Power

Class action law, Better Call Saul and the cost of bad incentives

The Building Crisis Destroying Britain | Sam Richards | IEA Interview

Breaking the doom-loop

Britain's Doom Loop: Why We Can't Stop Borrowing | IEA Podcast

INVITATION: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War

LAST TICKETS: Fixing welfare - is it Time for a New Approach?

Former Obama Administrator: Is Liberalism Dead? | IEA Interview

High-status opinions vs luxury beliefs: the economics of the “Great Awokening”

Will the Government overhaul property taxes?

Britain to Face BIGGEST Tax Rise in Decades? | IEA Podcast

Fighting Back Against Health Authoritarianism | IEA Briefing

Anti-Capitalism & Public Health

UK Economy in "Doom Loop" | Sir Simon Clarke | IEA Interview

INVITATION: Fixing welfare - is it Time for a New Approach?

Trump's Trade Disaster Just Made America POORER | Stan Veuger | IEA Interview

Another Tax Grab?

Crime, Tax Traps & Speech Police: Britain's Triple Crisis | IEA Podcast

Book review: “Space to Grow. Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier” by Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau

Britain's Energy Market U-Turn | Free the Power

The Death of British Prosperity: What Went Wrong? | IEA Live

Must taxes rise?

Britain's £50 Billion Black Hole: Beyond the Point of No Return? | IEA Podcast

A Brief History of the Soviet Economy - Part 3

Why Nuclear Power Will Save The World | Free The Power

Growth is all about incentives

We Called It: The Online Safety Bill Debacle | IEA Briefing

Online Censorship

The UK Government Just Made a MASSIVE Mistake | IEA Podcast

Is the Online Safety Act law in name only?

How the USSR Fell | Part 3 | Rise & Fall of the Soviet Economy

Beating Poverty with Market Economy

UK's Productivity Crisis: Why Britain Can't Grow | Vicky Pryce | IEA Interview

The Milei Effect

Milei Model for UK, Wealth Tax Warning & the Extremist Youth Poll | IEA Podcast

A Brief History of the Soviet Economy - Part 2

Stalin's Economic Nightmare | Part 2 | Rise & Fall of the Soviet Economy

The Bosnian Case for Decentralisation

Former Chief Goldman Sachs Economist Lord O'Neill: Why Britain is Stagnant | IEA Interview

Worklessness Woes

Financial Deregulation, Job Losses & Tax Reality: Britain's Economic Crossroads | IEA Podcast

A Brief History of the Soviet Economy - Part 1

The Rise & Fall of the Soviet Economy Part 1: From Tsarist Russia to Lenin's NEP

The sad truth about New Statism

Liberating Britain's Labour Market | IEA Briefing

Liberating the Labour Market

Is anyone listening?

The Wealth Tax Fantasy & Britain's Debt Crisis | IEA Podcast

Review: “Approaches to increasing productivity in healthcare” by Shimeon Lee (2025)

UK Smoking Ban & the Black Market Chaos | IEA Live

Economic Schools of Thought Explained | Dr Eamonn Butler | IEA Explained

An Introduction to Schools of Economic Thought

Book review: “The Trading Game” by Gary Stevenson (2024)

One year on, no change

Labour's First Year & Socialism's Return | IEA Podcast

Adam Smith's American Revolution | Dan Klein | IEA Interview

How Nuclear Power Went From Cheap to Impossibly Expensive | Free the Power

Smoke gets in your eyes

We have a magic money tree

Why Both Left and Right Have Failed on Growth | Julia Willemyns

Welfare woes

NHS Waste, Welfare Traps & Failed Industrial Strategy: Britain's Triple Crisis | IEA Podcast

New Government Alcohol Advertising Ban | IEA Briefing

Government in Crisis Over Exploding Welfare Bill | Dr Stephen Davies | IEA Interview

Is it time for a radical new approach to welfare?

[INVITATION] IEA Panel on Government and Economic Growth in the 21st Century

A Path to Peace and Prosperity in Pakistan

Tax Expert Dan Neidle: Why Wealth Taxes Will Backfire Spectacularly | IEA Interview

HS2 Billions, Trump's Tax Chaos & The Liberal Identity Crisis | IEA Podcast

High Speed 2 Nowhere

[INVITATION] Smoke & Mirrors

Is it time to drop the word “liberal”? A response to Rod Liddle

Britain is Paying for Wind Power It Can't Even Use | Guy Newey | Free the Power

The liberal international order is dead. Long live the liberal international order.

The Death of Neoliberalism and the Rise of Populism | IEA Briefing

The Spending Review

Chancellor's Spending Review: All Money, No Vision | IEA Podcast

The Falkland Islands won a war for freedom, now they're fighting for WiFi

The NHS Was NEVER The Best Healthcare System In The World | IEA Briefing

Bootlegging Baptists

Could HS2's route be put to better use?

New Zealand's Deputy PM David Seymour: "That's a Fight Worth Having" | IEA Interview

NHS Rhetoric or Reform?

Winter Fuel U-Turn & Britain's Fiscal Time Bomb | IEA Podcast

The Case for a liberal YIMBYism

Why Britain's Cannabis Laws Make No Sense | IEA Interview

Book review: The Secret History of Neoliberalism

How to Save Western Civilisation | Johan Norberg | IEA Interview

How to approach a spending review

Doctors Strike & UK's 60% Tax Rate |IEA Podcast

Exploring the Space Economy

2025 Vinson Centre Conference in the Classical Liberal Tradition

Your Professor Lied to You About Capitalism | Yaron Brook | IEA Live

Universities: what can we learn from the US?

How to SAVE Britain | Robert Jenrick MP | IEA Live

EU Red Tape Returns

Trump's "Beautiful Bill" & a New UK Tax Raid? | IEA Podcast

Brexonomics 101

Britain's 15-Years of Stagnation & What to Do | Sam Bowman | IEA Interview

Gravy-Trains

The Western Population Crisis | Lyman Stone | IEA Interviews

Scaremongering on Employment Rights

Britain's Growth Delusion: The Numbers Don't Lie | IEA Podcast

Why Britain Leads Europe in Lifestyle Restrictions | Nanny State Index 2025 | IEA Briefing

The Nanny State Index 2025

The Real Reason Britain Is Poorer Now Than America's Poorest State | Douglas Carswell | IEA Interview

Elon Musk, the accidental monetarist?

David Friedman Explains Why Trump's Tariffs Will Fail | IEA Live

Are we losing?

India & US Trade Deals: Do They REALLY Benefit Britain? | IEA Podcast

The economics of empire

Britain's Energy Disaster & How Innovation Could Turn It Around | Matt Ridley

EVENT: Dr. Yaron Brook on the Morality of Capitalism

[INVITATION] Inside Thatcher's Monetarism Experiment: The Promise, the Failure, the Legacy

Why does the same car cost $23,000 more in the UK?

Liberty in Burundi

Trump: mea culpas 100 Days In

Europe Goes Dark & Trump's 100 Days | IEA Podcast

Jacob Rees-Mogg on Why The UK's Economic System Is Broken | IEA Interviews

EVENT: In Conversation with the Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP

New Trafford: can the free market promote regeneration in Manchester?

EVENT: In Conversation with Dr Tom Hurst and Sir John Whittingdale OBE MP

Trust in Tech?

Why Millionaires Are Fleeing the UK & Do Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism? IEA Podcast

Book review: “Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism. And Other Arguments for Economic Independence” by Kristen Ghodsee (2018)

The Corporate Playbook Debunked | Dr. Christopher Snowdon | IEA Briefing

The Corporate Playbook

Four Types of Killjoy: #5 Conclusion

What the Media Gets WRONG About Islam and Democracy | Mustafa Akyol | IEA Interviews

Book review: Hayek's Bastards

A trade deal with Trump's America?

The Future of British Conservatism & UK Politics | Simon Heffer | IEA Briefing

The Cost of Economic Nationalism & Political Realignment | IEA Podcast

The Carbon Market Time Bomb | Free the Power

In defence of capitalism

Who Will Pay More Tax? IFS Paul Johnson | IEA Interview

Great British Steel?

Trump vs Markets: The Financial Crisis & His Tariff Retreat | IEA Podcast

In defence of trade deficits

Britain's Economic COLLAPSE: From Global Leader to 27th Place | Lord Moynihan | IEA Live

Four Types of Killjoy: #4 Anti-gambling

Raising our allowance – understanding Britain’s Emissions Trading Scheme

Green Hydrogen & the "Crime Against Thermodynamics" Policy | Free the Power

Bin strikes, Union might, and the equal pay time bomb

From Nudges to Bans: The Dangerous Path of Behavioral Economics | Prof. Mario Rizzo | IEA Live

Tariffs Aren't Liberating

Zero Sum Delusions: Trump’s Tariffs

Trump's New Tariff Plan Explained, UK Savings & Wealth Inequality | IEA Podcast

EVENT: In Conversation with Dr Tom Hurst and Sir John Whittingdale OBE MP

Left vs Right: Both Anti-Freedom | Yaron Brook | IEA Interviews

Four Types of Killjoy: #3 Anti-obesity

Progress in the Philippines

EVENT: In Conversation with David Friedman

The Chancellor’s growth reset: a missed opportunity?

Time for a wealth tax?

The Truth About Wealth Taxes & the Spring Statement | IEA Podcast

New Analysis: the cost of tax hikes

Four Types of Killjoy: #2 Anti-alcohol

Four Types of Killjoy: #1 Anti-smoking

Reflections on the Spring Statement

Analysis: What the Chancellor SHOULD Have Done

The Cost of Quantitative Tightening

Time for a New Economic Measurement? IEA Briefing

Rethinking Monetary Policy

No Net Zero?

Saturday Read: Benefits reforms may not achieve much but they have focused attention

The Truth About Britain's Welfare State & Peak Woke? | IEA Podcast

[INVITATION] IEA In Conversation with Lord Moynihan of Chelsea OBE

Disability and incapacity benefits for working-age people: some recent developments

Has “real” wokery never been tried?

[INVITATION] IEA In Conversation with Mario Rizzo

Quick Read: How popular are central bank digital currencies?

Is Bitcoin the Future of Money? Why the UK Is Falling Behind | Bitcoin Policy UK | IEA Interview

The black market for tobacco is out of control

Is DEI Dead?

NHS England Abolished, DEI Quotas Scrapped & Tobacco Crisis | IEA Podcast

NHS England is dead.

How The Black Death Increased Worker's Wages: Medieval England's Economic Revolution | IEA Interview

The misguided war on end-to-end encryption

Peter Schiff: Trump & The Truth About America's Fake Prosperity? | IEA Interview

Not Invented Here

A liberal future for Ukraine?

Benefits Britain?

The Uncomfortable Truth About Welfare, Housing & Unions In Britain Today | IEA Podcast

Not-so-Great British Railways?

Free trade for a safer world - Part 2

[INVITATION] Not Invented Here

Should we cut aid to fund defence?

[INVITATION] IEA In Conversation with Mario Rizzo

The People VS. Paternalism

Lord Hannan on Britain's Economic Crisis and the Path to Recovery | IEA Interview

1934's Lost UK Socialist Blueprint | IEA Briefing

Parallel Universe

Do we need a British DOGE?

How EU Rules Still Force British Consumers to Pay Premium Prices | IEA Briefing

Government Funded Activism, British DOGE & Manufacturing Nostalgia | IEA Podcast

What would Socialism in Britain look like? A view from an alternative future

[INVITATION] Labour Reimagined: Policies for the Future of Work?

In Defence of Unfair Competition | IEA Briefing

In Defence of Unfair Competition

Reform UK's Energy Policy & New Towns | IEA Podcast

New towns?

Will Reform UK's Energy Policies Cut Prices? | IEA Briefing

Tobacco and Vapes bill

The Uncomfortable Truth About Why British Government Is Failing | Sam Freedman | IEA Book Club

Free trade for a safer world - Part 1

Are Actually Creating More Discrimination | IEA Briefing

Liberalising Discrimination Law

Free Trade Matters

Trade Wars Return: What Trump's Tariffs Mean for the World

On socialism and capitalism at different stages of economic development

Environmental Groups Are Blocking The Best Climate Solutions | IEA Briefing

3 Ways to SAVE Britain's Economy | Tyler Goodspeed

A Roadmap to a More Mixed Healthcare Model

[INVITATION] IEA Book Club with Sam Freedman

Making the most of Brexit

Analysing Reeves' Growth Strategy and Brexit's Legacy | IEA Podcast

Not all villains write policy papers

They Said Britain Was FINISHED - Then The IEA Radicals Changed Everything

Regional Economic Disparities

The Painful Reality of Britain's Benefits Crisis

Desperate for growth

Starmer's Dilemma: Can Labour Save the Economy Without Killing Net Zero? | IEA Podcast

You're invited! Buckingham Events

Young and mobile

The REAL Reason America Became an Economic Superpower (It's Not Tariffs) | IEA History

The highway out of serfdom

WATCH: 'This Can't Go On' - IEA Director's Urgent Warning for Britain's Future

Should we keep means-testing to a minimum?

How Britain Learned to Stop Growing | IEA Podcast

Beyond Freeports

Converting Socialists Through Stories: The Free the People Method

Freeing up social care

How a 1988 Paper Predicted Today's Housing Nightmare

Why Campaign Groups HATE Real Solutions | IEA Briefing

The Hippocratic method for economic growth

Government Spending Out of Control? And the NHS & Schools Crisis Explained | IEA Podcast

The Real Reason UK Growth Collapsed After 2008 with Tyler Goodspeed | IEA Live

No Room! No Room!

The Best and Worst Economic Decisions of 2024 | IEA Podcast

The Illiberal Logic of Mission-Directed Governance

Why should liberals care about law and order?