Those of us who would welcome cheaper, greener vehicles, have cause for concern: Western policymakers seem keen on ensuring they stay expensive. Earlier this month, the EU slapped steep tariffs on ...

This is the first in a series of articles about how ideological interest groups react when their institutional preferences are challenged by practical solutions. Obesity is routinely referred to as a ...

IEA Executive Director Tom Clougherty was quoted in the Times on this week’s budget. The article said: “The idea that this budget does not increase taxes on workers is an ‘economic fantasy’, according ...

I remember walking through the streets of our small town with my father, hand in hand. Each morning, he would walk me to school, and I, a child with more questions than answers, would ask him the same ...

I don’t think there should have been a budget, at this point. Budgets are supposed to be delivered in March, just before the start of the new fiscal year. So what if there’s a new government? Labour’s ...

Commenting on the budget, Tom Clougherty, Executive Director at the free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs, said: “The Government came into office promising to prioritise growth. But ...

Raising employer National Insurance Contributions could result in workers facing pay cuts if companies try to keep their staff costs fixed. A company that employs 10 people earning £30,000 would see ...

Christopher J. Coyne, Rachel L. Coyne, Philip Booth, Ryan Bourne, Stephen Davies, Robert C. B. Miller, Colin Robinson, Steven Schwartz, W.Stanley Siebert, Christopher Snowdon and Richard Wellings.

Peter Bauer (Lord Bauer) was an economist of considerable influence, particularly on the prevailing wisdom about the value of foreign aid (‘government-to-government transfers’, as he preferred to call ...

This publication comprises a reappraisal of the work of John Maynard Keynes. It strengthens the view that the Keynesians went too far in supposing that the old economics had been overthrown by the new ...

The second edition of Catholic Social Teaching and the Market Economy is a much expanded and updated version of a previous book, published in 2007, which critically examines the case for state ...

An incredible collection which for the first time brings together the IEA's work on globalization and free trade Protectionism is back on the agenda as the financial crisis deepens. With calls for ...