Responding to reports of US plans for blanket tariffs, Tom Clougherty, Executive Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs said: “Tariffs are a tax on domestic consumers. With living costs high ...

ABOUT THE PROGRAMME This week-long programme for sixth formers is a way to get experience discussing economic ideas and concepts beyond the exam curriculum. The week will include lectures, discussions ...

Treating people differently based on characteristics beyond their control is illiberal, divisive, and fails to help those who are genuinely disadvantaged UK equality legislation has evolved beyond ...

IEA Executive Director Tom Clougherty has been quoted in CityAM on the threat of tariffs imposed by the Trump administration. The article said: “The UK is “ready for all situations” and ministers will ...

The Freeports strategy announced by the previous government attempted to address today’s challenges with yesterday’s recipes, lacked the necessary deregulatory framework and failed to address key ...

Amongst commentators critiquing the NHS and suggesting alternative healthcare models, the conversation does not progress particularly far. It tends to start with a suggestion that we need to look ...

Responding to the Chancellor’s speech on economic growth Tom Clougherty, Executive Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs said: “The Chancellor is saying all the right things on growth and ...

IEA Economics Fellow Julian Jessop was referenced in the Express on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s approach to the EU. The article said: “Julian Jessop of the Institute of Economic Affairs said the ...

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 ...

This interview was first published in the Berliner Zeitung, and reproduced here with their permission. We would like to thank Dr Rainer Zitelmann, historian, sociologist and occasional IEA author, for ...

“The US in the late-19th century did have huge economic advantages which helped it become an industrial juggernaut, but these had little to do with tariffs. Among other factors, US industry had access ...

Labour Reimagined: Policies for the Future of Work? I am delighted to invite you to an upcoming IEA panel discussion, ‘Labour Reimagined: Policies for the Future of Work? ’. This event will occur on ...