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The Laffer Curve in Action

Andy Burnham doesn’t really want to undo “neoliberalism”

Newsletter: Why AI doom-mongering misses the real threat

Threads of liberty in the Bayeaux 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

Putting Football Fans Offside

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?

INVITATION: Jeffrey Archer's Final Book Launch

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

In defence of small freedoms

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?

A load of (red) bull

Why bonds matter

Are we the people we were?

The UK's Net Zero consensus is quietly cracking

Is Burnham’s rightward turn driven by politics?

Nicotine nonsense

The First Global Currency

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

Famine and trade

Cardiff’s Debt Trap Serves as a Warning for Wales

Venezuela should shut down its central bank

Hidden cargo

The bitter truth about junk science

Was Hitler a Socialist?

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

Tax

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

Energy

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

How Venezuela can prosper

Cambridge and the incentive problem

Good riddance to Colombia’s failed wealth tax

What’s wrong with being a liberal?

Infrastructure

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

Is War Coming?

Counting the cost of social care

Young workers need freedom

Trade, Trust, and Civilisation: The Hidden Economic Message of Nolan’s 'Odyssey'

In Defence of English

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

Who guards the guardians?

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

It's not so grim oop North

How to fix the BBC

A liberal's guide to immigration

What Argentina can learn from the Falklands

Time for a (voluntary) fame tax

A dire strait of affairs

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

A bitter PIP to swallow

8 Things Andy Burnham Could Do In His First 100 Days | IEA Briefing

What Stevenson gets right

What Burnham owes to Lenin

Will Burnham really change anything?

A letter to Andy Burnham

The economics of spite

Britain’s post-Brexit tariffs should shame the Government

Gary Stevenson's Wealth Tax Documentary, Fact-Checked | IEA Podcast

Road to nowhere

Spending targets do not work

Why our public sector is so unproductive

Make Britain liberal again

What Went Wrong After Brexit Won? Lord Elliot | IEA Interview

Colombia's election and Latin America's 'Donroe' moment

Against postwar nostalgia

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

Making plans for Nigel

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

Economic Affairs (46.2)

More than a game

Was New Zealand's Lockdown Worth It? | IEA Interview

Britain needs tax simplification

England sleeps, England awakes, England drinks

The Great Fragmentation

SpaceX embodies the best of capitalism

Britain's Wealth Just Collapsed | IEA Podcast

How to save British steel

Economic Affairs (46.1)

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

Which way, Manchester man?

Little Dark Age

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