“Today’s labour market data may represent the calm before the storm. Unemployment, employment and inactivity have remained roughly the same – not great but not getting worse. However, the vacancy and ...

“The broad-based fall in headline inflation to 2.6% in March is another step in the right direction. The services and core rates excluding food and energy are still relatively high, but they fell too.

Pricing would lead to more efficient investment and better use of existing capacity In this short classic, Friedrich von Hayek argues that our thinking is governed by language which reflects an ...

What is the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS)? Let’s start with the basics. The UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS) is designed to encourage a reduction in C02 produced by both large industry 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 ...

I am delighted to invite you to an upcoming IEA event, ‘In Conversation with Dr Tom Hurst and Sir John Whittingdale OBE MP’. This event will occur on Monday, 28 th April, from 18:00 – 20:30 at the IEA ...

I am delighted to invite you to an upcoming IEA event, ‘In Conversation with David Friedman’. This event will occur on Wednesday, 7 th May, from 18:00 – 20:30 at the IEA (2 Lord North Street, ...

We're sorry, but all tickets sales have ended because the event is expired. The acclaimed Return to Growth Volume One by Lord Moynihan, addressed the mystery of why ...

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 ...

Four tax reforms will take effect in April 2025. Using the PolicyEngine UK tax-benefit microsimulation model, we analysed these reforms, which will increase taxes by an average of £1,112 per household ...

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 ...