The Shadow Monetary Policy Committee (SMPC) is a group of independent economists whose purpose is to monitor the decisions of the Bank of England’s official Monetary Policy Committee and make policy ...

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.

I used to know a chap who had the good fortune of looking nearly two decades younger than he actually was. Until he didn’t anymore. At some point, his biological age caught up with him with a ...

Last month’s Commonwealth summit in Samoa was not supposed to be about the past. But despite Downing Street’s pledge that the issue would be off the biennial summit’s agenda, the topic of reparations ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

If you’re looking for someone to speak at your university or society, or you’d like books and magazines to give away at Fresher’s Fair, we can help. We regularly send our staff and research fellows to ...

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 ...

What is trickle-down economics and does it even work? Is it possible to stimulate growth by letting the rich get richer? What can Pablo Escobar teach us about trickle-down economics? Trickle-down ...

THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE: A HIGH-RISK PRINCIPLE by Gabriel Calzada, Cécile Philippe, Xavier Méra THE 2005 GENERAL ELECTION AND THE ‘NULL MP’: A NEW APPROACH TO ELECTORAL REFORM by Richard Teather ...

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 ...