“The Chancellor is right to cut spending rather than raise taxes again, and the cuts she has made are welcome. There is, nevertheless, a sense of unreality about all this. Policy is being determined ...

Responding to a new report by Action on Smoking and Health, Dr Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs, said: “This is more ...

Inflation targeting fails to distinguish between demand and supply-side driven inflation, leading to suboptimal policy responses and delayed recovery from financial crises, such as the Covid-19 ...

Price controls damage markets by preventing the supply of products rising to meet demand. They can cause significant welfare losses, a deterioration in product quality, a reduction in investment and, ...

Will Friday’s much-awaited fiscal announcement deliver the free market policies we hope for? In this panel discussion, chaired by Mark Littlewood, IEA Director General, this question will be answered.

This week, the IEA published ‘Faith in Markets? Abrahamic religions and economics’, edited by IEA Religion in Economics Fellow Benedikt Koehler. The book features contributions from a variety of ...

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 ...

This article was first published on the Institute of Economic Affairs Substack. Official figures recently published by HMRC indicate a huge rise in illicit tobacco sales in the UK since 2021. The ...

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is hosting a Sixth Form Conference in partnership with Uppingham School on Wednesday 12th March 2025. At the conference, students will have the opportunity to ...

Firms, especially in the technology sector, sometimes move from Europe to the US, but rarely the other way around. This talk will discuss when and why they do so, using recent empirical findings on ...

This week, the IEA published a new paper authored by IEA Head of Lifestyle Economics Christopher Snowdon, which explores the correlation that alcohol advertising has ...