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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 ...

UK industrial electricity prices at 25.85p/kWh are the highest of the 28 countries covered by the IEA report. UK prices are some four times those in the US, 2.6 times those of Korea and 46% higher ...

The 2021 Dorian Fisher Memorial Prize Results The IEA is delighted to announce the results of the 2021 Dorian Fisher Memorial Prize.The first prize of £500 went to Marcella Impelliziere Licastro from ...

The overview highlights the academic consensus on harmful consequences. Most studies (56 out of 65) find that rent controls succeed in lowering rents for controlled units, as intended. However, 14 out ...

Colonialism and the slave trade were, at best, minor factors in Britain’s prosperity and may have been net lossmakers. An increasingly prominent anti-capitalist narrative claims that empire and ...

“This is a deeply cynical cash grab from the Chancellor. Forget sin taxes, this is a saint tax. Vapers did what the government wanted and gave up smoking. They are now being punished for it. “This is ...

Above all, the IEA is known for the quality, accessibility and rigour of its research. We publish incisive economic analysis on a wide range of policy issues including education, the environment, ...

Britain is moving in a decidedly cashless direction. In the decade between 2012 and 2022, cash payments fell from 54 per cent to 14 per cent according to UK Finance. This isn’t happening because of ...

The government’s generational smoking ban will syphon billions of pounds from government coffers to criminal gangs. The UK government receives £10 billion annually from tobacco duty, which risks being ...