Sitemap - 2026 - Economic Affairs
INVITATION: Future of Money: Hayek's Denationalisation of Money at 50
“Tax Wealth, Not Work”: the slogan that can’t pay its way
The price of alignment: what the UK-EU SPS Agreement means for British businesses
What the Corn Laws teach us about the limits of public choice
The answer to Britain’s energy costs lies in the Anglosphere
Reflections on the IEA’s Northern Schools Tour
Spain’s snap election: a PP–Vox majority would loosen the state’s grip, except at the border
The real lesson of the US midterms
Britain’s deficit is cultural before it is fiscal
Britain’s housing crisis is really a money crisis that gold can solve
False hope? Burnham has raised expectations for the future while today’s experience worsens
Newsletter: The world needs more founders
Healey’s Budget is an attack on the young
Did inflation cost the GOP Congress?
Frédéric Bastiat on the Law of Liberty and Free Markets
Trump’s tariff backlash and the price of the EU reset | IEA Podcast
The hidden costs keeping Britain’s electricity bills high
The Bank of England takes out some inflation insurance
MAGA’s midterm defeat should be a warning to Britain’s right
Borrowing to lend: the Budget’s blind spot
How the state tried to eliminate slums – and created even worse ones
Five lessons from the OBR forecasts
How we learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb
Budget 2026 – reassuringly dull
NEW REPORT: The Atonement Complex
18 years at the IEA: achievements and regrets
Newsletter: A Budget of sweeteners and stealth taxes
The great water nationalisation mirage
David Hume on the Self-Coordinating Market Processes
This can-kicking Budget is a clarion call to economists
Handouts, Landlords and the Tax-Raising Budget | IEA Podcast
Back to the 1970s: why nationalisation keeps failing
Wary Chancellor presents a ‘Ming vase Budget’
Stand on the right: a commuter’s view on London’s tourism
A Budget of sweeteners and stealth taxes
CANZUK can make Britain richer – here’s how
The IEA’s verdict on Budget 2026
Why social care policy keeps failing, and how to fix it
Lula’s fourth term: a state-heavy platform meets a right-leaning Congress
Donald Trump is bankrupting America
Cut the jobs tax and give young people a hand-up, not a hand-out
The strange death of the net contributor
The public have had enough of tax rises
Newsletter: Britain has choices: Lessons from the Alternative Budget
The ‘missing’ trillion-pound UK sovereign wealth fund is pure fantasy
John Stuart Mill on Liberty, Tyranny and Restraints on Government
Will the Budget Fix Britain’s Debt Crisis? | IEA Podcast
Britain’s car industry has crashed twice in 50 years
When Saturn eats his children: the case against the triple lock
Fixing photosynthesis: the innovation that could feed the world
Britain’s competition watchdog takes aim at AI
Who should run social care? The case for competing mutuals
Britain has choices: lessons from the Alternative Budget
Risk aversion is immiserating Britain
Berlin’s rent cap: cheaper rents, fewer homes
Falling out of love with Net Zero
Newsletter: There is no such thing as macroeconomics
In postmodernity, housing is a first-world problem
Forecasts, Football and Folic Acid | IEA Podcast
Spending on AI is not the same as using it well
I’d rather build wealth than tax it
A free market in speech is not a free market in attention
A better way to pay for social care
There is no such thing as macroeconomics
Inside the Most Powerful Bank You’ve Never Heard Of | IEA Interview
INVITATION: The Tyranny Tracker: Global Trends in Democracy and Authoritarianism
True liberals, libertarians, progressives and conservatives: what’s the difference?
Why most Americans aren’t buying socialism or nationalism
INVITATION: The Higher Education Delusion: What Went Wrong with the UK’s Universities?
The BBC wants a ‘BBC’ button on your TV remote control
Newsletter: The Scottish Tragedy
Before regulating AI, try the laws we already have
Do the Tories’ Inheritance Tax Plans Add Up? | IEA Podcast
Party conference season: Which policies would actually help Britain's economy?
The Case for Freedom in an Illiberal World | IEA Interview
Will anything be a luxury in a richer world?
Brazil’s 7-1: What a Free-Market Congress Could Mean
How Trump has pushed Canada back to Britain
Andy Burnham is lost on the world stage
Stop indulging reparations campaigners
Sánchez bets Spain's snap election on a housing crisis he created
London's surplus economy: high costs meet weak demand
Newsletter: Burnham has misdiagnosed Britain’s industrial decline
Why Canada would rather fight Trump than trade with him
INVITATION: The Atonement Complex - Report Launch
Burnham has misdiagnosed Britain's industrial decline
Andy Burnham's Speech: Nostalgia and Nationalisation | IEA Podcast
AI: where Britain can make a difference, and where it can't
The case for scrapping state pensions
Hungary's new government should fix what's broken and keep what works
Forget left and right – British politics is now reality versus fantasy
More control, higher costs: A response to Andy Burnham’s Labour Conference Speech
Rail nationalisation is a rebrand, not a revolution
Britain can't subsidise its way out of a shortage
Andy Burnham doesn’t really want to undo “neoliberalism”
Newsletter: Why AI doom-mongering misses the real threat
Threads of liberty in the Bayeux Tapestry
Why Can't Britain Fix Its Pensions? | IEA Podcast
Battle of Ideas - IEA TICKET DISCOUNT!
The Bank of England loses us a fortune
Ration cards are the wrong answer to the welfare bill
Why AI doom-mongering misses the real threat
Bottom-up order beats top-down reform
A hike through the woods feels natural. It’s anything but.
Institutions matter most in international trade
Nostalgia for dead industries is killing our future
INVITATION: Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World
‘Moral Economics’ by Alvin Roth: A Review
Newsletter: Stuck in place? How government policy traps workers in low-wage regions
The Capitalist Command Economy
INVITATION: The Alternative Budget Launch
Time for the Government to treat taxpayers better
Scrap Stamp Duty, Scrap Inheritance Tax? | IEA Podcast
Stuck in place? How government policy traps workers in low-wage regions
Why the climate militants are back on the streets
Family voting is a crime. So why hasn’t anyone been charged?
Don't let a falling homicide rate mask London's real crime problem
Work is the best medicine for Britain's mental health crisis
The inheritance tax bite isn’t worth the chew
How Britain Became a Command Economy Without Anyone Noticing | IEA Briefing
Newsletter: Britain has chosen high unemployment
Too Much ‘Efficiency’: Why Things Break Down
Why Iceland said no to Brussels
Nearly 1 Million Young People Not in Work: Is Britain Facing a "Lost Generation"? | IEA Podcast
A third government budget to undermine confidence and damage growth?
Why does nobody see new technology coming?
Is Britain’s Economic Freedom score overstated?
Milei’s monetary failure is behind his Falklands rhetoric
The minimum wage is biting the jobs market
INVITATION: Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World
Britain has chosen high unemployment
INVITATION: Food for Thought with James Turk
INVITATION: The Artificial Intelligence Revolution
INVITATION: Food for Thought with Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan
INVITATION: Food for Thought with Iain Murray
INVITATION: Entrepreneurial Minds with Peter Higgins and Lord Kamall
The mansion tax is a miniature wealth tax
Brexit & Austerity: What Actually Stalled UK Growth? | Julian Jessop
The fairytale of fiscal multipliers
Trump’s Venezuela oil deal is a product of mistrust
The Bond Market Is Panicking — Should We Be? | IEA Podcast
England excels at elite sporting venues
How a great British institution survived
How Britain Lost Two Decades of Growth | IEA Events
JD Vance declares war on economics
Anti-Thatcher karaoke won’t drag Britain out of its self-imposed economic stagnation
Can AI fulfil the dream of central planning?
Digital currencies: Are we with Hobbes or Locke?
The UK's Net Zero consensus is quietly cracking
Is Burnham’s rightward turn driven by politics?
Britain's Tax Burden Is the Highest Since 1947 | IEA Podcast
How to boost public sector productivity?
A warning from Italy: don’t adopt PR
Why Young People Can't Get Jobs Anymore | IEA Interview
Cardiff’s Debt Trap Serves as a Warning for Wales
Venezuela should shut down its central bank
The bitter truth about junk science
INVITATION: The Great Stagnation: Why Britain Stopped Growing
Yes, strawman-bashing is annoying. But have you met the strawman’s cousin, the balloon man?
The public is dangerously misinformed about supermarkets
Britain's £110 billion sickness bill
Imran Khan stood up for the rule of law
Britain finally has a plan to lower energy bills
Are We Becoming Two Nations? | IEA Podcast
There is no UK productivity puzzle
Britain's Tax Burden Is at a Post-War High. Here's Why It Matters | IEA Interview
Post-earthquake Colombia needs no Marshall Plan
Employment: the revenge of the Econ101 textbook
One in Four Britons Now Claim to Be Disabled | James Bartholomew | IEA Interview
Lessons for today from the 2008 bank bailout
Reform wants to save £50bn. But how?
Britain is choosing to be poor
Burnham's betting shop crackdown
Corporation Tax and the UK Economy
Brexit allows the UK to bypass EU tech stagnation
Iceland's EU referendum: "No" is a vote for freedom
Why the NHS Isn't the Bargain You Think It Is
What the UK public sector can learn from Amazon
Net Zero Is Bankrupting Britain's Economy | David Turver | IEA Interview
The political economy of monopsonies
Why Manchester outpaced London in new housing
Why markets are essential to growth
How to Win a Trade War, with Soumaya Keynes | IEA Interview
Cambridge and the incentive problem
Good riddance to Colombia’s failed wealth tax
What’s wrong with being a liberal?
Is America Really Richer Than Europe? | IEA Podcast
The BBC is losing out badly to private competitors
Why Is British Infrastructure So Expensive? | IEA Interview
Free-Born John: Champion of English Liberty
Shrinkflation: A Menu Disaster for Locals. Could It Be The Least of Our Worries?
The Hidden Cost of Geopolitical Conflict: Who Really Pays for Disruption?
Why the centre-left should stop bashing ‘neoliberalism’
Is the triple lock bankrupting Britain?
The fragility of Milei’s reforms in Argentina
Why I welcome Andy Burnham’s anti-Thatcherite rhetoric
Counting the cost of social care
Trade, Trust, and Civilisation: The Hidden Economic Message of Nolan’s 'Odyssey'
A Million Young People Are Not in Work, Education or Training | IEA Podcast
Buildings: In Defence of Stupid Growth
Council roads designed to stop you driving
Is This Why Britain Stopped Growing? | IEA Interviews
The battle between top-down and bottom-up
The impact of leaving the EU was negligible
Why the freedom of children matters
A liberal's guide to immigration
What Argentina can learn from the Falklands
Time for a (voluntary) fame tax
Andy Burnham's First Week as Prime Minister | IEA Podcast
The Never-Ending Credit Crunch
Why Is Britain Poorer Than Every US State? | IEA Interview
Localism alone cannot deliver prosperity
What Britain can learn from Dubai
The end of bitter-pill economics
Why we shouldn't grant rights to groups
The staggering cost of nationalisation
8 Things Andy Burnham Could Do In His First 100 Days | IEA Briefing
Will Burnham really change anything?
Britain’s post-Brexit tariffs should shame the Government
Gary Stevenson's Wealth Tax Documentary, Fact-Checked | IEA Podcast
Why our public sector is so unproductive
What Went Wrong After Brexit Won? Lord Elliot | IEA Interview
Colombia's election and Latin America's 'Donroe' moment
If you go down to the woods today…
The union tail is wagging the Labour dog
Is Britain Actually Neoliberal? The Spectator's Michael Simmons | IEA Interview
Donald Trump goes full Third World
Why Polanski is wrong about rent controls
Farage vs Binface, Wealth Inequality & Trickle-Down Myths | IEA Podcast
Great British Rail will be a Great British Flop
Britain has decarbonised enough
Was New Zealand's Lockdown Worth It? | IEA Interview
Britain needs tax simplification
England sleeps, England awakes, England drinks
SpaceX embodies the best of capitalism
Britain's Wealth Just Collapsed | IEA Podcast
The most important thing to happen in 1776
Winning the War of Ideas | IEA Interview
The Italianisation of the United Kingdom
Did Women's Freedom Build the Modern Economy? | IEA Podcast
Introducing: 'Economic Affairs'
Is Britain Ungovernable? | IEA Podcast
Classics Revisited: Better Off Out?
Tax Rises Built a Black Market. Britain Is Next. | IEA Interview
How Did Elon Musk Become The World's First Trillionaire? | IEA Podcast
The Truth About Britain's Nanny State Policies | IEA Briefing
New Book: Inside the Sausage Factory
Was Thatcher the Only Time Britain Loved Capitalism? | IEA Interview
Keir Starmer’s Turkey Twizzler moment
No wonder we have a productivity crisis
Is Degrowth Just Authoritarianism With Better Branding? | IEA Podcast
On Morality, Human Behaviour & Economics
Is the UK Overtaxed, Over-borrowed, and Running Out of Road? | IEA Interview
Can we get off the welfare state escalator?
Have Wealth Taxes Ever Actually Worked? | IEA Podcast
Did Capitalism Actually Help the Poor? | IEA Event
Growth, Inequality and Overtime: What Does Britain Actually Want? | IEA Podcast
Cost of renewables to double by 2030
Why Is Britain's Electricity the Most Expensive in the Developed World? | Free the Power
Is London Finished? | IEA Podcast
What is Opportunity Cost? Episode 5 | Economics 101
Did Free Enterprise Save the Space Age | IEA Interviews
The King's Speech and our capitalist command economy
Is Political Chaos Actually Killing the UK Economy? | IEA Podcast
Millenial Liberalism: Ben Southwood
Is Britain a Capitalist Command Economy? | IEA Briefing
Against the coping of the Europoor
Does Britain Actually Have a Housing Shortage? | IEA Podcast
200 Episodes: Your Questions Answered | IEA Podcast Q&A
Debunking the tropes of Modern Monetary Theory
Wealth Taxes Won't Fix Broken Britain
The Wealth Tax Delusion: The Policy That Promises Everything and Delivers Nothing | IEA Interview
Britain raises more tax from wealth than any other OECD country
Why Don't Governments Just Print More Money? | MMT Myth | IEA Interview
COVID Was the Biggest Event Since WW2 — And We've Learned Nothing | IEA Podcast
Why Are Young People Giving Up on Work? | IEA Podcast
INVITATION: Is Britain Broken?
Introducing ‘Millennial Liberalism’: a new series
Has The Left Already Won Britain?
Book Review: “How They Broke Britain” by James O’Brien (2023)
Turning negatives into positives
Britain Is Poorer Than Every US State | IEA Podcast
Net Zero's Dirty Secret | IEA Interview
What Britons really think about growth
What do Britons Really Think About the Economy? | IEA Interview
Should the Government Ban Kanye? Plus Rent Controls & the Minimum Wage Trap | IEA Podcast
Was Poland’s socialism ‘real’ socialism?
INVITATION: Heroic Humility Book Launch
Why Britain Is Poorer Than America | Tyler Goodspeed
Does Britain Need a Second London? | The 33rd IEA Hayek Lecture
A Guide to Hayek’s Law Legislation and Liberty
The Book That Predicted Modern Tyranny: Hayek's Law, Legislation and Liberty
Made in Britain: The 500-Year Story Behind the Industrial Revolution | IEA Interview
Greed didn't close the Strait of Hormuz
Why Is Britain Taking the Biggest Growth Hit in the G20? | IEA Podcast
The illicit tobacco market: a reply to ASH
INVITATION: Do Brits really want economic growth?
Can free markets save the West?
Are We in the Biggest Bubble in History?
The truth about insurance-based healthcare systems
Will the Government hold their nerve?
The Wealth Tax That Runs Out by Friday | IEA Podcast
Green Deals in the EU Exposed | IEA Interview
Why the EU Green Deal has failed
INVITATION: Do Brits really want economic growth?
What Reeves' Mais Lecture got right... and wrong
Britain's Broken Energy System | Free the Power | IEA Podcast
Is Inheritance Tax Britain's Worst Tax? | IEA Podcast
The Case for Abolishing Inheritance Tax
Who's really ripping off drivers?
Dubai, Net Zero & Free Speech: What's Really Going Wrong in Britain?
What problem would a vaping ban solve?
Britain's Growth Crisis: Is Anyone Actually Fixing It? | Dr Lawrence Newport
Adam Smith: The Greatest Economist You've Never Heard Of | Mark Skousen
Policy responses to an oil and gas crisis
Should We Ban Under-16s from Social Media? | Matthew Lesh
Events and non-events, dear boy
Saturday Read: On freezing rail fares
Spring Statement, Middle East Crisis & the North Sea Oil We're Refusing to Use | IEA Podcast
Kidnapped & Imprisoned: Venezuelan Political Prisoner Jesús Armas Speaks Out
10 wishes for the Spring Statement
Rejected to Relentless: Simon Krystman’s Entrepreneurial Rise
Legal tobacco sales halve in four years as black market booms
Reform, Net Zero Madness & the Social Media Ban: Are Politicians Completely Out of Touch?
The Student Loan Trap: Why the System is Broken (And How to Fix It)
Would a wealth tax reduce wealth inequality?
Why Net Zero Is Failing Britain
What is going on in the British economy?
We Had a Great Economy. Then We Wrecked It. | IEA Podcast
INVITATION: Does Britain Need a Second London?
Tinkering with regulated prices won’t solve the cost of living crisis
The jobs market is losing momentum
Are Student Loans Mis-Sold? | Peter Ainsworth
Britain is gambling less than you think
Can we blame the wealthy for leaving?
You're Getting Poorer: Here's Why the GDP Figures Prove It | IEA Podcast
3 takeaways from the GDP figures
Wealth Tax Exposed: Do Rich People Really Want Higher Taxes?
Is Inflation Really Under Control? The Psychology of Rising Prices
Flexible Working Mandates: Good Intentions, Terrible Results | IEA Briefing
From Extinction Rebellion to Nuclear Advocacy | IEA Briefing
INVITATION: In Conversation with Kathryn Porter
SMPC calls for a 25bps cut as inflation falls and recession risks rise
Why Britain Should Abolish the State Pension | Kristian Niemietz
Can Britain's Economy Recover? The Case for Scepticism
Even the super-rich themselves want a wealth tax. So why don’t neoliberals?
The Nuclear Option: Rethinking Britain's Path to Net Zero with Henry Hill
Book Review: Money and Inflation at the Time of Covid (2025)
From £52k to £80k: John Cochrane on How Britain Can Catch Up With America
Three problems with industrial policy
Andy Burnham's Manchesterism: The Mazzucato Playbook Rebranded
How Trump's tariffs hurt his biggest supporters the most
Why Smart People Flee Their Own Countries | Elena Panaritis | IEA Interview
The Stakeholder State: Why Britain Can't Build Anything | IEA Briefing
Never forgetting the absurdities of fascism
Politics Is Inevitable, Decline Isn’t
Britain's Economic Decline, Net Zero Costs, and the War on Digital Freedom
What is Market Failure? Episode 3 | Economics 101
The Great Millionaire Exodus: Why the UK Ranks Worst for Capital Flight.
Why Net Zero Will Bankrupt Britain | Free the Power
INVITATION: The Great Realignment - Why the New Right is Here to Stay
The Three Groups Destroying Britain | IEA Podcast
Britain's failing economic ideas
US Military Strikes Venezuela: The New Age of Great Power Politics | IEA Briefing