Responding to Trump’s pause on aid to Ukraine, Adam Bartha, Director of International Outreach at the Institute of Economic Affairs, and EPICENTER said: “Trump’s first weeks of his second term have ...

Commenting on the Government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill, Dr Kristian Niemietz, Editorial Director and Head of Political Economy at the free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs, ...

Single-issue campaigners claim to want to tackle big issues – including obesity, climate change, and smoking – but often reject real solutions on ideological grounds. Anti-obesity campaigners claim ...

Responding the to seventh Carbon Budget, Andy Mayer, Energy Analyst at the Institute of Economic Affairs said: “The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is a £7m a year state-funded lobby group (or sock ...

Commenting on the new amendments to the Employment Rights Bill, Professor Len Shackleton, Editorial and Research Fellow at the free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs, said: “The ...

The existing economic framework of the United Kingdom begs an important question. Does it comply with critical criteria laid down in the seminal 1960s work of Robert Mundell on optimal currency areas ...

Consumers are the biggest losers from excessive lifestyle regulations, yet their views are largely absent from policy decisions Public health campaigners ignore consumers. They frame debates as ...

Mancur Olson explained in The Logic of Collective Action (1965) that the free rider problem and the paradox of participation discourage rational consumers from taking collective action to oppose ...

The IEA will be hosting an upcoming event with Mario Rizzo on his book, “Escaping Paternalism”. This event will take place on Tuesday 25 th March from 18:00 – 20:30 at the IEA Westminster offices.

Why do single-issue campaigners object to pragmatic solutions to the issues that concern them? The IEA’s ‘Not Invented Here’ series has discussed six major problems – malnutrition, smoking, obesity, ...

“Growth is simple, it’s either inventing new stuff or providing old stuff using fewer inputs. Net zero conversely is a political target that requires the UK to emit zero greenhouse gases (mostly CO2), ...

Britain can use its Brexit freedoms to scrap arbitrary restrictions on parallel imports and cut prices for consumers and public services The UK has copied EU rules that prevent the import of genuine, ...