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Introducing: 'Economic Affairs'

Is Britain Ungovernable? | IEA Podcast

Classics Revisited: Better Off Out?

Tax Rises Built a Black Market. Britain Is Next. | IEA Interview

Whither Manchesterism?

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?

Reawakening Britain

Have Wealth Taxes Ever Actually Worked? | IEA Podcast

Did Capitalism Actually Help the Poor? | IEA Event

Against accelerationism

Blair vs Burnham

Growth, Inequality and Overtime: What Does Britain Actually Want? | IEA Podcast

Evolutionary Economics

Cost of renewables to double by 2030

Why Is Britain's Electricity the Most Expensive in the Developed World? | Free the Power

Predicting the Unpredictable

Summer borrowin'

Is London Finished? | IEA Podcast

What is Opportunity Cost? Episode 5 | Economics 101

Did Free Enterprise Save the Space Age | IEA Interviews

Predicting the unpredictable

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

Life in a moneyless society

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

A wealth of evidence

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

Job(s) news!

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

The data licensing gold rush

Net Zero's Dirty Secret | IEA Interview

What Britons really think about growth

What do Britons Really Think About the Economy? | IEA Interview

71% Wrong

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

In defence of New Towns

It's time to talk trade-offs

Pensions, Speech, Censorship

Britain should trade faster

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

Memenomics

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

The Genius of Adam Smith

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

Social media ban folly

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

Can we Just Stop Oil?

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?

Interest rate debates

Is Inflation Really Under Control? The Psychology of Rising Prices

Flexible Working Mandates: Good Intentions, Terrible Results | IEA Briefing

Is Flexible Working?

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

British ¡Afuera! #3: Pensions

Why Britain Should Abolish the State Pension | Kristian Niemietz

Universal Basic Income?

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

The Cost of Net Zero

INVITATION: The Great Realignment - Why the New Right is Here to Stay

The days after dictatorship

Happy New Year!

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

The Russian Economist Putin Wants Dead | IEA Interview

British ¡Afuera! #2 - Higher Education