Gabriel H. Sahlgren was a Visiting Research Fellow with the Institute of Economic Affairs in the summer of 2010 and is the author of the paper Schooling for Money: Swedish Education Reform and the Role of the Profit Motive. He recently graduated from Cambridge University with Starred First Class Honours in Politics. Various commentators aiming to undermine […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter. On our Comment pages today Mark Field MP sets out the two great truths of the economic debate: One: We must carry on with the Osborne deficit reduction programme. When you are in a worldwide debt crisis you have to get your debts under control. Two: The Coalition hasn't […]
Ruth Porter is Communications Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs. Sometimes politicians are so busy worrying about what the public thinks they don’t listen properly. Far from being opposed to the coalition’s plans to reduce government spending, the public don’t think the plans go nearly far enough. Today the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) […]
Professor Philip Booth is the Editorial Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs Professor Robert Barro gave the 20th Annual Hayek Memorial Lecture for the Institute of Economic Affairs earlier this week. He predicted that the next crisis would be a crisis of governments. Robert Barro is perhaps best known in the UK for “rediscovering” […]
Nick Hayns is Communications Officer at the IEA. More often than not, gambling is dismissed as just another one of the vices. Tobacco, alcohol, drugs, pornography and… gambling. Something seedy, something to be frowned upon, and – as the policies of successive governments have shown – something to be regulated and, ideally, stopped. However, new […]
By Jonathan Isaby Today sees the Arts Council of England announcing funding decisions which will result in cuts in grants to a number of organisations, and increases for others. The Guardian is running a minute-by-minute live blog on the topic should you be interested. But the Institute of Economic Affairs has taken the opportunity to […]
Tim Worstall is a Fellow at the Adam Smith Institute and an occasional comment piece writer for the UK newspapers. He is author of UK Uncut Unravelled, which is published today by the Institute of Economic Affairs. There's no problem with the youth of today having a few demos: not only is there no problem, […]
Tim Montgomerie For all those interested in boosting Britain's long-term economic competitiveness I recommend a series of blogs from the IEA that Sir Humphry Appleby would no doubt tell ministers were "courageous"… Philip Booth looked at the way Britain's planning system was hampering business: "[Britain has] some of the highest property prices in the world […]
Kristian Niemietz is Poverty Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, whose latest proposals are outlined in more detail in a major new report released today, A New Understanding of Poverty, which is available at the IEA website. Imagine our government managed to enact policies that brought down the cost of essential goods and […]
Ruth Porter is Communications Manager at the Institute of Economic Affairs. The latest edition of the Index of Economic Freedom has just been published, and for the second year in a row the UK has slipped down the rankings. Now with a score of only 74.5, two points less than last year, we sit five places […]
Tim Montgomerie Four of London's leading think tanks have all attacked today's increase in VAT to 20%; an increase that George Osborne intends to be a permanent rather than emergency fixture. Leading the charge has been Matthew Sinclair of the TaxPapers' Alliance. Speaking to the BBC earlier he pointed out that David Cameron had broken […]
Professor Philip Booth is Editorial and Programme Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs. The Government is pressing ahead with another reorganisation of the National Health Service. It is unlikely this reordering of our essentially bureaucrat-driven model will set the world alight. Certainly there is not much chance of the NHS becoming the envy of […]
Professor Philip Booth is Editorial and Programme Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs, which recently published Fair Trade Without the Froth by Sushil Mohan. A few weeks ago, the IEA published an in-depth study of Fair Trade, Fair Trade Without the Froth. The Hilton/Cameron-rebranded Conservative Party likes Fair Trade and there are good reasons […]
Following on from the pieces about the government policies inspired by the Centre for Policy Studies, Policy Exchange, the TaxPayers' Alliance and Direct Democracy, here is the response from the Institute of Economic Affairs as to how it has influenced Coalition policy. The main objective of the IEA is to change the climate of opinion […]
Terry Arthur is a Fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs and co-author, with Philip Booth, of Does Britain need a Financial Regulator? which is published today by the IEA. In 1997 Gordon Brown removed the so-called “self-regulatory” system for financial services under the Securities and Investment Board and created the Financial Services Authority (FSA). […]