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Contents Summary The Freeports strategy announced by the previous government attempted to address today’s challenges with ...

This paper combines insights from welfare economics, political philosophy and cross-disciplinary well-being research to defend preference-based approaches to welfare evaluations in public policy ...

I stumbled across a copy of Professor Alan Evans’s book No Room! No Room! in one of the IEA’s archives a few years ago when I was looking for something completely unrelated, started reading a few ...

A carbon tax has long been a point of contention for many who support free markets. Could it be freedom’s answer to climate change, or are its costs too onerous on consumers and businesses? This panel ...

Is our history under attack? According to commentator and cultural historian, Dr Philip Kiszely, the answer is a resounding yes. In this episode of Parallax Views, IEA Head of Cultural Affairs, Marc ...

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 ...

Since the Coronavirus pandemic the future of Britain’s high streets seems less certain than ever. In 2022, more than 17,000 shops closed in the UK, but does that give us the full picture and what can ...

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Why do some nations prosper while other fail? This is a question that has troubled social scientists for centuries and it is the topic of a new book, ‘Institutions and Economic Development: Markets, ...