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.

An exciting and pioneering book, it sketches out a provocative vision for cities based on civil cooperation and entrepreneurship. Historically, the city was considered a centre of commerce, knowledge ...

UK universities were once heralded as the beacons of intellectual excellence, places where ideas were rigorously tested and where students emerged intellectually fortified, ready to face the world.

Sin and consumption taxes, including taxes on tobacco and alcohol, cost low income people more than 37% of their income (as opposed to only 15% for richer Britons). Cutting these taxes can have ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was recently watching the video “Are Populists Destroying Democracy?” on the IEA’s Youtube channel, in which the IEA’s Editorial Director Kristian Niemietz interviewed Swedish political scientist ...

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 ...

To learn more about bias and the BBC, read our report: In Focus: The case for privatising the BBC. In our first of two videos on the BBC, the IEA’s Head of Public Policy Ryan Bourne highlights a ...

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 ...

Professor Syed Kamall speaks to IEA Head of Political Economy Dr Kristian Niemietz about the life and work of Walter Eucken. Walter Eucken (1891–1950): German economist. Key ideas: Ordoliberalism and ...

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 ...